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Trump Says He Wrote to Iran to Open Nuclear Talks

David Bale6 days ago03 mins

President Trump said he had sent a letter to the Iranian government seeking to negotiate a deal to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. He said the letter was sent Wednesday and addressed to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. The White House did not immediately respond to a request to provide the letter…

Chief Justice Allows U.S. to Continue Freeze on Foreign Aid Payments

David Bale2 weeks ago014 mins

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday night handed the Trump administration a victory for now in saying that the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department did not need to immediately pay for more than $1.5 billion in already completed aid work. A federal judge had set a midnight deadline for…

Emil Bove, Justice Dept.’s No. 2, Targets NY Office Where He Rose as a Prosecutor

David Bale2 weeks ago025 mins

Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general, stood stone-faced and alone at the prosecution table inside the federal courthouse in Manhattan last week to do a job his onetime colleagues in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York would not. Mr. Bove, who runs the day-to-day operations of the Justice…