The Senate on Wednesday dismissed the first of two articles of impeachment against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, voting along party lines before his trial got underway to sweep aside the charge accusing him of failing to enforce immigration laws. By a vote of 51 to 48, with one senator voting “present,” the…
The House Homeland Security Committee approved two articles of impeachment early Wednesday against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, over his handling of the southwestern border, as Republicans raced forward with a partisan indictment of President Biden’s immigration policies. In an 18-to-15 party-line vote, the panel endorsed a resolution charging Mr. Mayorkas with refusing…
House Republicans on Sunday released two articles of impeachment against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, charging President Biden’s top immigration official with refusing to uphold the law and breaching the public trust in his handling of a surge of migration at the U.S. border with Mexico. Leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee…
The state troopers who shot and killed a protester in January in a forest near Atlanta will not be criminally charged, a Georgia prosecutor said on Friday. George Christian, the district attorney for the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit, said in a statement that the troopers’ use of lethal force as they were trying to clear…
Hunter Biden, the president’s son, was charged on Thursday by federal prosecutors with lying about his drug use when he purchased a handgun in 2018 and with illegally possessing the weapon, setting up the potential for a trial coinciding with his father’s re-election campaign. The indictment came as House Republicans stepped up their efforts to…
Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general of Texas, pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption and bribery Tuesday on the opening day of his impeachment trial before the State Senate, the first such proceeding for a statewide officer in more than a century. Mr. Paxton, a third-term incumbent championed by hard-core conservatives and former President…
When Robert S. Mueller III, the first special counsel to investigate Donald J. Trump, concluded his investigation into the ties between Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, his report raised questions about whether Mr. Trump had obstructed his inquiry. Justice Department officials and legal experts were divided about whether there was enough evidence to show…
Federal prosecutors on Thursday added major accusations to an indictment charging former President Donald J. Trump with mishandling classified documents after he left office, saying he told a maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago that he wanted security camera footage there to be deleted. The new accusations were revealed in a superseding indictment that named the maintenance…
Donald J. Trump is set to become the first former president to be arraigned on federal charges when he appears in a Miami courtroom on Tuesday to face charges that he illegally retained national security documents after leaving office, obstructed efforts to retrieve them and made false statements about the matter. His appearance at the…
Federal prosecutors have brought charges of making false statements to financial institutions against the businessman at the center of the allegations swirling around Ken Paxton, the impeached attorney general of Texas. The man — Nate Paul, a real estate investor in Austin and a donor to Mr. Paxton’s campaign — appeared before a magistrate judge for 30…