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Jan 13, 2025 | 
avpress.com | Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer
WASHINGTON — The criminal charges against Hunter Biden “were the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics,” the prosecutor who led the probes said in a report released Monday that criticized President Joe Biden for having maligned the Justice Department when he pardoned his son.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
avpress.com | Alanna Durkin Richer |Eric Tucker |Chris Megerian
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon two criminal cases against Donald Trump on Monday, acknowledging that Trump’s return to the White House will preclude attempts to federally prosecute him for retaining classified documents or trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. The decision was inevitable, since longstanding Justice Department policy says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
avpress.com | Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer
WASHINGTON — Matt Gaetz withdrew Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general amid continued fallout over a federal sex trafficking investigation that cast doubt on his ability to be confirmed as the nation’s chief federal law enforcement officer.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
avpress.com | Jill Colvin |Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as US ambassador to NATO, the bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect has expressed skepticism about for years.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
avpress.com | Eric Tucker |Larry Neumeister
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican president-elect.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
avpress.com | Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON — A new book’s assertion that former President Donald Trump may have had as many as seven private phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving the White House has refocused attention on their politically fraught relationship and on Trump’s sustained dialogue with world leaders as he seeks a return to power. It’s not surprising in and of itself that an ex-president would preserve ties with foreign counterparts.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
avpress.com | Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump laid the groundwork to try to overturn the 2020 election even before he lost, knowingly pushed false claims of voter fraud and “resorted to crimes” in his failed bid to cling to power, according to a newly unsealed court filing from prosecutors that offers new evidence from the landmark criminal case against the former president.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
avpress.com | Rebecca Santana |Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer
WASHINGTON — Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement hampered the Secret Service’s performance during a July campaign rally where former President Donald Trump was shot and wounded, according to a document released Friday that lays out a litany of missed opportunities to stop a gunman who opened fire from an unsecured roof.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
avpress.com | Stephany Matat |Eric Tucker |Terry Spencer |Alanna Durkin Richer
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The man suspected in an apparent assassination attempt targeting Donald Trump camped outside a Florida golf course with food and a rifle for nearly 12 hours, lying in wait for the former president before a Secret Service agent thwarted the potential attack and opened fire, according to court documents filed Monday. Ryan Wesley Routh did not fire any shots, never had Trump in his line of sight and sped away after being shot at by an agent who spotted him, officials said.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
avpress.com | Eric Tucker |Didi Tang
WASHINGTON — A Christian pastor from California has been freed from China after nearly 20 years behind bars and is back home in the US, the State Department said Monday. David Lin, 68, was detained after he entered China in 2006, later convicted of contract fraud and sentenced to life in prison, according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and advocacy groups.
