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Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.

The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers on Thursday, according to three sources with direct knowledge of his congressional … Read more

The Justice Department attempted to indict James again less than two weeks after a federal judge dismissed the agency’s mortgage fraud case last week.

Roots of conflict traced back to Rwandan genocidepublished at 16:22 GMT 4 December 16:22 GMT 4 December The origin of the current fighting can be traced back to the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 when about 800,000 people – mostly from the Tutsi community – were slaughtered by ethnic Hutu extremists. The genocide ended with … Read more

Hegseth “created a risk to operational security” that put U.S. pilots in danger, the report stated.

Top Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress on Thursday said that the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, had not ordered the military to kill surviving members of a deadly attack on a boat alleged to be carrying drugs in the Caribbean, but differed over whether the double strike was appropriate. The allegation that Hegseth ordered the … Read more

The Justice Department on Thursday failed to secure an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News. The presentation to the grand jury came less than two weeks after the original criminal case against her was dismissed. James, a frequent political target of President Donald Trump’s … Read more

Somalis and Somali Americans have rejected United States President Donald Trump’s characterisation of their community as “garbage” with a mixture of outrage and creative mockery that has lit up social media platforms. The pushback this week came after Trump closed his final cabinet meeting of the year on Tuesday with a venomous attack on the … Read more

Although the two had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project.

A grand jury declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James after being asked to look at the mortgage fraud case against her a second time, 10 days after a federal judge threw out the initial charges against her, according to a person familiar with the development Thursday. Another source familiar with the situation … Read more