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Jan 3, 2025 | 
centralmaine.com | Eric Tucker |Jim Mustian |Kevin McGill |Jack Brook
NEW ORLEANS — The Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans acted alone, the FBI said Thursday, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others in the deadly attack that officials said was inspired by the Islamic State group.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
centralmaine.com | Alanna Durkin Richer |Eric Tucker |Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors moved Monday to dismiss the criminal charges against President-elect Donald Trump that accused him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election and to abandon the classified documents case against him, citing longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
wkbn.com | Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said Tuesday. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City, told investigators after his arrest Monday that he had planned his attack to coincide with Election Day next month and that he and a co-conspirator expected to die as martyrs, according to charging documents.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
centralmaine.com | Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer |Stephany Matat |Eric Tucker
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
centralmaine.com | Eric Tucker |Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON — The gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is believed to have done a Google search one week before the shooting of “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday, revealing new details about a suspect he said had taken a keen interest in public figures but had otherwise not left behind clear clues of an ideological motive.
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May 13, 2024 | 
brandonsun.com | Michael R. Sisak |Jennifer Peltz |Eric Tucker |Jake Offenhartz
Print Email Read Later NEW YORK (AP) — The star prosecution witness in Donald Trump's hush money trial, Michael Cohen, took the stand Monday, and his testimony could help shape the outcome of the first criminal case against an American president.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
centralmaine.com | Michael R. Sisak |Jennifer Peltz |Eric Tucker |Eric Tucker |Jake Offenhartz
NEW YORK — Prosecutors in the historic hush money trial of Donald Trump urged a judge Tuesday to fine him and hold him in contempt over social media posts that they say violated a gag order barring attacks on witnesses, jurors and others involved in the case. Citing 10 posts on his social media account and campaign website that they said breached the order, prosecutors called the messages a “deliberate flouting” of the court’s prohibition and requested a $1,000 fine for each one.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
centralmaine.com | Alanna Durkin Richer |Eric Tucker |Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON – In Donald Trump’s federal 2020 election interference case, all eyes are on the Supreme Court, whose next moves could determine whether the former president stands trial in Washington ahead of the November election. An appeals court panel on Tuesday unanimously rejected Trump’s claims that he is immune from prosecution, with the judges saying they cannot accept the idea that former presidents are “above the law for all time” once they leave the White House.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
centralmaine.com | Eric Tucker |Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON — Each time Donald Trump refers to a Georgia prosecutor ‘s colleague as her “lover,” he’s invoking a strikingly familiar turn of phrase. After all, Trump as president repeatedly used the same word to mock two FBI officials, including an agent who helped lead the Russia election interference probe, after revelations that the pair had an extramarital relationship and had traded pejorative text messages about him.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
centralmaine.com | Eric Tucker |Acacia Coronado |Lindsay Whitehurst |Jake Bleiberg |Eric Tucker
UVALDE, Texas — Police officials who responded to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas “demonstrated no urgency” in setting up a command post and failed to treat the killings as an active shooter situation, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday that identifies “cascading failures” in law enforcement’s handling of one of the deadliest massacres at a school in American history.
