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Blanche’s nomination had been held up over concerns from GOP Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, but the parties reached a deal to end the standoff.

An FBI supervisor detailed to the U.S. intelligence community is facing two federal charges, accused of transferring nearly a million dollars from cryptocurrency accounts tied to an adversarial nation into his personal cryptocurrency wallet.

President Donald Trump on Monday said Jeanine Pirro “choked” by dropping the government’s case against an Olympic canoeist that the administration had previously accused of causing more than $1,000 worth of damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Not long after James Comey posted a photo of seashells on Instagram last spring, his wife, Patrice, got a text message.

DOJ holds first-ever hearing of ‘Alien Terrorist Removal Court,’ created in 1996

WASHINGTON — Todd Blanche’s path to confirmation as the next attorney general of the United States faced a setback Wednesday as two key Republicans pressed the Justice Department to commit in writing to kill an “anti-weaponization” fund that could give money to Trump allies and restrict the scope of the tax audit immunity given to the president and his family members.

It’s the second time the Trump administration has found a way to criminally charge the former FBI director, whom Trump has targeted for years.

Attorneys for James Comey have asked a federal judge to dismiss the seashells-based prosecution of the former FBI director.

The subpoenas centered on reporting the newspaper had done on security concerns involving the new Air Force One, a present from Qatar.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche testified at his confirmation hearing Wednesday that he’s not a “yes man” — but also that President Donald Trump is his boss.