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Federal prosecutors were rebuffed in their effort to secure an indictment against former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to four sources briefed on the grand jury proceedings. The Justice Department has not yet responded to a request for comment. The Washington Post first reported that the grand jury declined to indict Hutchinson. Hutchinson, who was a top aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, a

With a week to go until the 2026 midterm elections , you'd be forgiven for thinking that President Trump and former President Barack Obama were running against each other this year. While campaigning for Democrats in Ohio over the weekend, Obama mocked the various renovation projects that Trump has been overseeing at the White House, prompting a pointed response from the president and his administration. I don't know if you've noticed, but he seems very focused on home renovations, Obama told th

Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A federal judge on Tuesday tossed new obstruction charges the Justice Department filed against two former FBI agents accused of lying to Congress about an investigation into Hunter Biden. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia expressed anger at the federal prosecutors who filed the superseding complaint shortly after midnight Tuesday, CBS News reported. The complaints were unsworn and unsigned. We have never had complaints filed tha

By Ricardo Brito and Gram Slattery SAO PAULO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election and refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports, two sources said. The US Embassy in Brazil did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Bolsonaro's lawyer also did not respond. It was not immediately clear where Bolsonaro was heading, what time he would arrive or whether he

Michael Pretti and Susan Pretti, parents of Alex Pretti, who was killed by federal immigration agents in January, listen during a news conference, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt) - Ellen Schmidt/AP PROGRAMMING NOTE: Susan and Michael Pretti join CNNs Jake Tapper on The Lead at 5 p.m. Eastern The parents of Alex Pretti , a US citizen shot and killed by immigration agents in Minneapolis in January, are accusing the Department of Justice of violating their rights u

The 2026 midterm elections are just 7 days away. So where do things stand nationwide in the race to control Congress? Which party has a better chance of, you know, winning? To get a sense of that, it helps to geek out over some cold, hard data. The usual caveats apply, of course. Polls aren't predictions; they're momentary snapshots of public opinion. And they have been wrong before . Yet time is running out and the stakes in November couldn't be higher, especially for President Trump, who ha

Benjamin Netanyahu casts his ballot next to his wife Sara at a polling station in Jerusalem - Pool via Reuters/Yonatan Sindel Israel attracted a record turnout for Tuesdays crucial election, as Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot accused each other of dirty tricks. At 4pm in Israel (2pm UK time), voter turnout stood at 55.7 per cent, according to the countrys central elections committee 8 per cent higher than at the same time of day during the 2022 election. It was the highest turnout at that

A golfer walks in front of cut down trees at East Potomac Golf Links near Hains Point in Washington, DC, October 19, 2026. - Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images A federal judge extended an order blocking tree removal from a Washington, DC golf course President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate, while imposing new notice requirements on any other major changes the administration seeks to make on the golf course grounds. The new 70-page opinion from US District Judge Ana Reyes cited Trumps own statements

April 2026 photo of former Rep. Eric Swalwell at a town hall meeting in Sacramento. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) The FBI Tuesday morning raided a mansion in Beverly Hills in connection with an investigation into former Congressman Eric Swalwell, sources told The Times. Swalwell, a Democrat from Dublin, dropped out of the California governors race and resigned from Congress in April after allegations that he sexually assaulted a former staffer and acted inappropriately with other young w

New data from the Energy Information Administration showed that gas prices since Jan. 20, 2025 have averaged $3.458 per gallon the first time in President Trump's second term that overall average gas prices have surpassed the average seen during President Biden's four years in office. The weekly government data, released Tuesday, shows a reading of $4.269 per gallon for Oct. 26, which nudged up the average price under Trump from Jan. 27, 2025 to this week. It has now surpassed the $3.455-per-g

Federal prosecutors filed new criminal charges on Tuesday against two ex-FBI counterintelligence officials, accusing them of obstructing a congressional proceeding and lying to lawmakers about their roles in the bureau's investigations of Hunter Biden. The unsigned and unsworn superseding complaint, filed early Tuesday morning, comes just hours before the defendants Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides are due to appear in federal court in Washington, D.C. for a preliminary hearing. At that hearin

This booking photo released by the Tennessee Department of Correction on July 24, 2025, shows Jacob Morley. - Tennessee Department of Correction/AP Tennessee authorities are searching for a 28-year-old convicted murderer who escaped through a state prisons fence late Sunday night before stealing a truck and driving off. Jacob Morley, who is serving a life sentence, is now on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations Most Wanted list, with a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to his ar

By Steven Scheer and Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Israelis surged to the polls at the fastest rate in nearly half a century on Tuesday to pass wartime judgment on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in what voters described as the most consequential election in the nation's history. Long lines formed outside polling stations for the first election since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, with voters passionately engaged over the trauma of the country's deadliest day and the ensu

Someone could win an estimated $716 million in Wednesdays Powerball drawing after no ticket matched all six numbers on Monday. The jackpot has gone for more than 30 drawings without a winner, since Aug. 12, when a single ticket sold in Illinois won $1.04 billion. Monday still produced a couple of big winners. Two tickets , one sold in Florida and one in Georgia, matched all five white balls and won $1 million each. What are the odds of winning Powerball? The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot a

By Steven Scheer and Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a fight for political survival in Israel's election on Tuesday, with voters weighing his leadership after the 2023 Hamas-led attacks, wars in Gaza and with Iran, and Israel's deepening international isolation. Yet Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader with 19 years in office, remains a formidable survivor, with nationalist politics increasingly entrenched and Israel's fragmented system pot

What to know about the Iran war today: President Trump said Sunday he was still deciding between reaching an agreement with Iran and taking action to finish them off. Mr. Trump has kept open the possibility of a new round of major U.S. strikes against Iran .Iranian officials said Sunday that indirect negotiations with the U.S. continue but that Tehran will not change its positions even if Mr. Trump does order a resumption of American attacks on the Islamic Republic.The price of international ben

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Sparrows Point, Maryland, on October 6. - Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images US forces in the Middle East are prepared to launch new, potentially major, military operations against Iran within 96 hours of receiving an order from President Donald Trump, according to two US officials. Sufficient forces are now deployed in the region to carry out the potential attacks, the sources said. The scope of new US military operations

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department's newly filed lawsuit to prevent Alaska state officials from certifying election results if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses in November. In an at-times contentious interview with CNNs State of the Union, Blanche pointed out that according to the Constitution, Congress can create laws at any time to regulate elections. But when host Dana Bash asked what crime the administration was arguing was being committed, Blanche repl