FBI agents searched former Democratic representative Eric Swalwell's Washington DC home on Sunday as part of a federal sexual assault inquiry. Agents also reportedly seized electronic devices from Swalwell at San Francisco airport. A person familiar with the case said federal agents appeared to be using civil rights statutes to scrutinize his conduct.
NYTimes – US Federal agents also ‘seized electronic devices’ from former Democratic representative at San Francisco airport Authorities are said to have searched the Washington DC home of disgraced former California Democratic representative Eric Swalwell on Sunday amid an ongoing law enforcement investigation into sexual assault allegations. CNN reported that federal agents on Saturday “seized electronic devices” from Swalwell…
Federal agents also ‘seized electronic devices’ from former Democratic representative at San Francisco airport Authorities are said to have searched the Washington DC home of disgraced former California Democratic representative Eric Swalwell on Sunday amid an ongoing law enforcement investigation into sexual assault allegations. CNN reported that federal agents on Saturday “seized electronic devices” from Swalwell…
NYTimes – US Most sex crimes are prosecuted by state and local authorities. The federal agents appeared to be using civil rights statutes to scrutinize Mr. Swalwell’s conduct, a person familiar with the case said.
NYTimes – US Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon, a progressive who identifies as a democratic socialist, won Florida's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating Alex Vindman despite being heavily outspent. She will face Republican incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody in November's general election. The Associated Press projected both primary wins.
NYTimes – World A luxury safari helicopter crashed in a remote part of northern Kenya on Wednesday morning with no survivors, killing all seven people on board. Five of the dead were Americans, the US State Department said. Among those killed were Ecuador's director of national intelligence, Michele Sensi-Contugi, his wife Stephany Hollihan, and NBCUniversal journalist José Alberto Suárez, a Florida-based Telemundo executive. Search and recovery efforts were hampered by fire at the site and difficult terrain, officials said.
NYTimes – US North Korea launched about 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea, South Korea and Japan said, a day after the US scaled back joint military exercises with South Korea. Pyongyang said the reduced drills remained provocative. President Donald Trump had called the exercises "hostile" toward North Korea and said he would meet leader Kim Jong-un later this year.
