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Senate Again Fails to Advance DHS Funding Bill as Shutdown Stretches Over a Month

Although about 96 percent of the federal government is funded, DHS has remained partially shut down since Feb. 13.

FBI misled court to spy on second Trump campaign adviser…

Clinesmith later pleaded guilty to altering evidence used in an application to renew a FISA warrant to spy on another Trump adviser, Page, whom the FBI falsely accused of acting as a Russian agent.
Walid Phares was electronically monitored for a 12-month period between 2017 and 2018, according to the Washington-based FBI agent who was assigned to investigate him as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion probe.

Questions Swirl Over Renewal of Surveillance Powers Law

Some lawmakers do not support a clean, 18-month reauthorization of FISA’s Section 702, worrying past reforms are not enough to protect Americans’ rights.

Tennessee Passes Bill Preventing Landlords from Banning Guns in Rental Property

Supreme Court Gears Up To Decide If Elections End On Election Day

‘This is a real opportunity for the Supreme Court to enforce the rule of law and to bring good election practices at the same time.’

FBI Resumes Buying Americans’ Location Data Without Warrants

The law stops the government from taking your location data, it says nothing about buying it.

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Chicago man bought and resold soda in $1.5 million food stamp fraud scheme…

Court records detail one of the earliest charged transactions: on November 14, 2018, federal investigators watched Quinones drive to a store and purchase roughly 20 cases of Pepsi using three Link cards.
Prosecutors said from 2018 to 2023, Quinones paid cash to people enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP or food stamps, in exchange for access to their Link cards and PINs. He then used those cards to make bulk purchases of sodas, water, and snacks at retail stores and resold the goods to convenience stores and restaurants for profit.

New York Man Freed After 19 Years in Prison for Robbery He Didn’t Commit

NEW YORK—A man who spent nearly two decades in prison for a roughly $550 robbery was exonerated and freed Monday, after prosecutors said they now agree he didn’t commit the crime. “It cost me 20 years, but they said they corrected it now. So that’s all that matters. So I’m good with that,” Kenneth Windley, […]