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The president ignored a question about whether he was considering firing her.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
NYTimes – US The president ignored a question about whether he was considering firing her.
NYTimes – US The president ignored a question about whether he was considering firing her.
NYTimes – US U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro was seen with a large box as she left the White House Monday after her meeting with President Trump.
Trump ‘disappointed’ with US attorney amid reports he’s considering removing her from her post Trump’s reflecting pool saga: a timeline Donald Trump accused US attorney Jeanine Pirro of having “folded like an umbrella” amid reports that he was considering removing her from her post. Trump criticized Pirro on Monday after she dropped vandalism charges against a former Olympian accused of damaging the recently renovat…
"She folded like an umbrella," President Trump said of Jeanine Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
The FBI arrested Wanying Zhang, also known as Heather, at Los Angeles International Airport as she was departing for China, accusing her of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government by surveilling the son and family of Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te at the behest of Chinese officials. Lai condemned the alleged operation as a "barbaric" act and criticized China for disregarding human rights and suppressing personal freedoms.
BBC News – World A Gulfstream G100 medical transport plane carrying six people from Bermuda to Boston crashed off the coast of Massachusetts early Saturday. The US Coast Guard found debris near Nantucket and suspended its search for survivors on Sunday; all six are presumed dead.
NPR – US Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican U.S. House speaker, died Saturday of natural causes at his home while receiving hospice care, a coroner said Monday. He was 84. Hastert represented Illinois in Congress for two decades and served as speaker from 1999 to 2007. He was later imprisoned in a hush-money case tied to sexual abuse allegations.
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