Eric Tucker

Jan 11, 2025 | pbs.org | Eric Tucker

Politics Jan 11, 2025 6:05 PM EST WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump, an expected move that comes amid legal wrangling over how much of that document can be made public in the days ahead. The department disclosed Smith’s departure in a court filing Saturday, saying he had resigned one day earlier.

Jan 8, 2025 | pbs.org | Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that it intends to release special counsel Jack Smith’s findings on Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election but will keep under wraps for now the rest of the report focused on the president-elect’s hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Jan 7, 2025 | pbs.org | Eric Tucker

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joining law enforcement officials to update the public in the hours after a man killed 14 people and injured dozens of others in New Orleans, Louisiana’s junior Republican senator, John Kennedy, implored the FBI to “catch these people” — and then added one more eyebrow-raising request of the federal government.

Jan 7, 2025 | pbs.org | Eric Tucker

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on investigations into Donald Trump as an appeals court weighs a challenge to the disclosure of a much-anticipated document just days before the president-elect reclaims office.

Jan 3, 2025 | pbs.org | Eric Tucker

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Street performers and football fans returned to New Orleans streets as the city inched back toward normalcy while mourning victims of the deadly New Year’s rampage in which an Army veteran plowed a pickup truck into revelers. Fourteen people were killed in the attack along Bourbon Street that officials said was inspired by the Islamic State militant group.