Malaysia's Karex Bhd, the world's top condom producer, plans to raise prices by 20% to 30% and possibly further if supply chain disruptions drag on due to the Iran war, its chief executive said on Tuesday.
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Kash Patel's lawsuit against The Atlantic has been filed.
All else aside, it confirms this: Kash Patel was locked out of the FBI system on Friday, April 10.
The lockout set off a flurry of inquires to the FBI/DOJ/WH about whether Patel had been fired.
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NEW: Justice Sotomayor statement: "At a recent appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law, I referred to a disagreement with one of my colleagues in a prior case, but I made remarks that were inappropriate. I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague."
A federal judge slapped a $250 fine on a DOJ attorney for repeatedly missing deadlines in habeas cases.
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The Justice Department on Tuesday took the opening step in erasing the guilty verdicts of the last few Jan. 6 rioters who were not granted total clemency by President Trump, moving to throw out the convictions of 12 members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers militia.
GOVT ASKS DC CIRCUIT TO VACATE CONVICTIONS AND REMAND FOR DISMISSAL IN OATH KEEPERS AND PROUD BOYS CASES. Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, everybody. ...
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The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.
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Late last summer, a small group of political appointees began convening at DHS HQ. The group — which once called itself “Team America” — looked for federal levers it could pull to make Trump’s March executive order about elections a reality. @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social
JUST IN: Judge Friedman has rejected the Pentagon’s revised press policy, saying it flouted his earlier order and represents a bid by Hegseth and the Trump admin to “dictate” coverage, what he calls “the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.” ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Russia will see revenue from its biggest single oil tax double to $9 billion in April due to the oil and gas crisis triggered by the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran, Reuters calculations showed, the first concrete evidence of a windfall for Russia.
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The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it carried out a court-authorized disruption of a DNS hijacking network controlled by a Russian military intelligence unit.
The acting head of the DOJ’s voting section told a judge last week that the agency had not touched the nonpublic voter roll data it has collected. That wasn’t true. www.wired.com/story/doj-mi...
The acting AG, Todd Blanche, "has spent the past year or so enabling the wholesale politicization of the Justice Department ... while still serving as a last-ditch bulwark against the president’s most extreme attempts to seek vengeance against his enemies."
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Trump makes it official: Bondi is out, Blanche -- his personal lawyer in multiple criminal cases -- is the new acting AG.
Iran-linked hackers on Friday claimed they had accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet.
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After the US atty's office in Manhattan told a judge that it had been relying for months on apparently incorrect information in a fight over immigration court arrests -- and blamed ICE for the "error" -- the judge has ordered the USAO and ICE to preserve their records buff.ly/9q4ZmGJ
NEW: DOJ has reached a financial settlement with Michael Flynn, the conservative activist and former Trump adviser who sought millions for what he alleged was a politically motivated prosecution. No $ details in court notice today, more to come
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Dhillon made an effort to obscure the content of the letter, but portions of it are easily readable if you flip the image and enhance.
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President Donald Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA STATE OF MINNESOTA, by and through its Attorney General Keith Ellison; 445 Minnesota St, St Paul, MN 55101 MARY MORIARTY, in her official capacity as the Hennepin County Attorney; 300 South 6th St, A-1200, Minneapolis, MN 55487 Case No. 26-cv- DREW EVANS, in his official capacity as Superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension; 1430 Maryland Ave E, St Paul, MN 55106 Plaintiffs, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20530 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; 2707 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE, Washington, DC 20528-0485 PAMELA BONDI, in her official capacity as Attorney General of the United States; 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Security. 2707 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE, Washington, DC 20528-0485 Defendants. COMPLAINT In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched an immigration enforcement action in Minnesota called "Operation Metro Surge" (the "Surge").
Described by DHS as the largest immigration operation in the Department's history, the Surge deployed thousands of armed and masked federal agents on the streets of Minnesota. 2) The Surge had a profound effect on all of Minnesota, but its impacts were particularly acute in Hennepin County. It was there during the course of three weeks in January 2026 and at the height of the Surge that federal agents shot and killed two people on public streets and shot and wounded a third person at the threshold of his home. Renee Good and Alex Pretti lost their lives during the Surge, and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was wounded, all at the hands of federal agents deployed to Minnesota by Defendants. 3) These shootings are just three examples of the violent actions committed by federal agents in Minnesota during the Surge. Federal agents also carried out illegal stops, sweeps, arrests, and dangerous raids in sensitive public spaces. The Surge created widespread fear among Minnesota residents, both citizens and noncitizens. It caused hundreds of millions of dollars in economic harm. And it flooded Minnesota's federal courts with lawsuits challenging the unlawful detentions that resulted from the operation.
Defendants' refusals to share evidence here did not arise from any case-specific investigative need. Instead, the breakdown in cooperation followed intervention by senior federal officials who directed that evidence would not be shared with Minnesota authorities, reflecting a broader policy or practice not to share evidence with Minnesota in Operation Metro Surge use- of-force investigations. 10) Faced with unprecedented noncooperation, Plaintiffs submitted formal requests to Defendant U.S. Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") and Defendant U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ" or "Justice Department") seeking access to evidence. Those requests invoked DHS and DOJ's administrative procedures for evaluating requests for agency records and testimony for use in state proceedings. 11) Defendants' responses to those requests indeed, by and large, their refusal to respond at all-confirm that the federal government has adopted a policy and practice of refusing Minnesota authorities access to investigative materials relating to uses of force by federal immigration officers deployed to Minnesota as part of Operation Metro Surge. That policy has deprived state investigators of timely access to evidence in federal custody that is directly relevant to their investigations of potential violations of Minnesota criminal law.
Plaintiffs State of Minnesota, by and through its Attorney General Keith Ellison ("State"); Mary F. Moriarty, in her capacity as Hennepin County Attorney ("HCAO"); and Drew Evans, in his capacity as Superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension ("BCA"), bring this action against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice to secure access to the evidence necessary to investigate these shooting -4- Case 1:26-cv-01007 Document 1 Filed 03/24/26 Page 5 of 43 incidents and to ensure that the State of Minnesota can fulfill its sovereign duty to determine whether federal officers committed crimes within its borders. 13) Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to set aside Defendants' unlawful policy of noncooperation and their resulting refusal to comply with the investigative demands of Minnesota authorities. At stake is not only Plaintiffs' access to evidence central to these shootings but also a fundamental principle of our constitutional system: that the States retain the sovereign authority— and responsibility-to investigate crimes committed within their borders.
NEW: Minnesota AG Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Moriarty sued the Trump admin over its refusal to share evidence in the Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis shootings, in which Good and Pretti were killed (Case No. 26-cv-1007). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Obviously this photo is a Simpsons joke, right?
President Trump declared victory over crime in Memphis, months after hundreds of federal agents and Tennessee National Guard troops poured into the city.
But local officials and advocates argue that crime rates were already declining.
NEW: The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to block demands for records and testimony about the DOGE project led last year by billionaire Elon Musk
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Petition: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
UPDATE: The Arizona Senate has released the federal grand jury subpoena for the records related to the partisan audit of Maricopa County's 2020 election.
Link to full record: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...
"Just 9.1 percent of Army employees agreed that 'Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s political leadership team generates high levels of motivation in the workforce,' the survey report said, and they were the most satisfied of any of the large agencies surveyed."
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s restrictive Pentagon press access policy, which threatens journalists with being branded security risks if they seek information not authorized for public release.
A primary purpose of the First Amendment is to enable the press to publish what it will and the public to read what it chooses, free of any official proscription. Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech. That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years. It must not be abandoned now.
BREAKING
The Trump DoD’s policies that exiled the Pentagon pool violated the 1st and 5th Amendments, a federal judge ruled.
Speaking of a free press, the judge wrote: “That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years. It must not be abandoned now.”
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