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Wisconsin judge refuses to step aside as requested by former Trump attorney 12/09/2025 05:50pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday refused to step aside as requested by President Donald Trump's former attorney who faces felony forgery case related to the 2020 election in the battleground state. The judge also refused to cancel a Monday preliminary hearing for Trump's former at Justice Department can unseal Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case records, judge says 12/09/2025 03:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department’s request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime con Editorial Roundup: United States 12/09/2025 02:50pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Dec. 8 The Washington Post on Josh Hawley's health care “solution” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) thinks he has a new idea: no taxes on health care. He has proposed making all out-of-pocket health care expenses tax deductible, s Drunk driver strikes officer, crashes into police cruisers at Manassas holiday event, police say 12/09/2025 01:16pm • A 24-year-old man is facing multiple charges, including driving under the influence, after police say he drove through road closures, crashing into three police cruisers and striking an officer Friday evening during a Christmas tree lighting event in Manassas, Virginia. Jackson Harlow was taken i Who will lead DC police? Search for new chief begins 12/08/2025 09:45pm • About two years after Pamela Smith was approved to lead officers on a permanent basis, the D.C. police department is once again searching for a new chief. Smith said Monday that she will step away from her position at the end of the year, calling it a personal decision she talked over with family Former Colorado clerk will remain in state prison after a federal judge rejects her bid for freedom 12/08/2025 07:46pm • DENVER (AP) — A federal magistrate judge on Monday rejected a bid by a former Colorado county clerk to be released from prison while she appeals her state conviction for orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race. Former Mesa Smith's tenure as DC police chief marked by drastic 2-year drop in crime 12/08/2025 06:03pm • D.C. police Chief Pamela Smith is stepping down at the end of the month after two years leading the department, taking over during a rash of postpandemic violence and ending her tenure on pace for an eight-year low number of homicides in 2025. Smith was nominated as chief in July 2023 and worked Former Trump aides allege judicial misconduct in Wisconsin fake elector case 12/08/2025 05:54pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump's former attorney in battleground Wisconsin alleged Monday that a judge presiding over his felony forgery case related to the 2020 election is guilty of misconduct and must step aside. The attorney and two other former Trump associates charged in relatio Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba resigns as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey 12/08/2025 05:03pm • President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, resigned Monday as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, leaving the job after an appeals court said she had been serving in the post unlawfully. In a statement posted on social media, Habba assailed the court's ruling as politic Court clerk who helped with Alex Murdaugh's trial pleads guilty to showing sealed exhibits 12/08/2025 04:34pm • ST. MATTHEWS, S.C. (AP) — The former court clerk in South Carolina who helped out with the murder trial of attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty Monday to criminal charges for showing sealed court exhibits to a photographer and lying about it in court. Former Colleton County Clerk of Court Mary Re Why DC police Chief Pamela Smith says she's stepping down 12/08/2025 02:33pm • Chief Pamela Smith said she will step down from her position leading D.C. police at the end of the month, telling reporters Monday, "It's time." Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the move Monday morning, nearly two weeks after saying she herself would not seek a fourth term. Smith's last day o Bullet-pocked marker memorializing 1918 lynching goes on display in Atlanta 12/07/2025 12:55pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A historical marker from the site of a 1918 lynching that was repeatedly vandalized in recent years is now safely on display in Atlanta in an exhibit that opens Monday. It memorializes an event that some people in rural southern Georgia have tried hard to erase: the killing of Mary Judge temporarily blocks Justice Department’s use of evidence in dismissed Comey case 12/07/2025 02:07am • (CNN) — A federal judge on Saturday temporarily locked down the Justice Department’s access to some evidence used in its criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, just as the Trump administration prepares to seek a new indictment after the dismissal of previous charges early last we Trump administration plays up pipe bomb suspect's arrest. Jan. 6 violence goes unmentioned 12/06/2025 03:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — After the arrest of a man charged with placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties on Jan. 5, 2021, the warning from the Trump administration was clear: If you come to the nation's capital to attack citizens and institutions o The Latest: Grand jury transcripts from abandoned Epstein investigation in Florida ordered released 12/05/2025 09:40pm • A federal judge in Florida ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday. U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said a recently passed law ordering the release of records related to the cases overrode a federal rule