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U.S. Customs Officer, Charged with Child Pornography, Faces Up to 10 Years in Prison
A U.S. customs officer in Maine faces up to 10 years in prison on a federal child pornography charge.
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Mueller Confirms Manafort Raid Targeted Records on Trump Tower Meeting, Russian Oligarch
When FBI agents raided the home of Paul Manafort, the former head of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, last summer, a judge signed off on seizing records related to a previously undisclosed meeting between the campaign and Russian lobbyists at the Trump Tower in June 2016.
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Border Patrol Agent Acquitted in Shooting Death of Mexican Teen
Prosecutors are mulling whether they should pursue a retrial in the case of a Border Patrol agent charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting a teenager after an Arizona jury deadlocked on the lesser accounts.
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DEA Investigates Ex-Agent Accused of Providing Intel to Colombian Drug Traffickers
The DEA is investigating a former agent accused of providing intelligence to Columbian drug traffickers.
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Flight Records Contradict Trump’s Alibi for Mysterious Moscow Visit in 2013
President Trump twice told then-FBI Director James Comey that a salacious report about him with hookers in Moscow could not possibly be true because he didn’t spend the night in Russia.
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Waffle House Shooting Suspect Used Seized Gun in Rampage
The 29-year-old accused of killing four people in a shooting rampage at a Waffle House in Tennessee used an AR-15 that authorities temporarily seized from him after he entered a restricted area near the White House and demanded to talk to President Trump in July 2017.
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FBI Continues to Become Whiter Despite Recruitment Campaign
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s campaign to integrate its predominately white ranks has failed to bring more African Americans on board. In fact, a smaller share of the FBI’s ranks are African American than a decade ago, when black agents made up 6.5% of the ranks. Today, only 4.4% of the bureau’s 13,500 agents…
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Ultimate Loyalty Test for Cohen Who Said He Would ‘Take a Bullet’ for Trump
When Donald Trump’s former campaign deputy Rick Gates pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the special counsel team last month, most legal observers assumed Robert Mueller wanted Gates to provide information on his former business partner, Paul Manafort.