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In a win for the Justice Department, a federal judge on Friday blocked a May 24 deposition of former President Donald Trump in connection with a pair lawsuits filed by former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The order from U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson was in response …

A former prosecutor who once oversaw the Manhattan District Attorney Office’s investigation into former President Donald Trump frustrated House Republicans on Friday by repeatedly saying during a deposition that he would not answer their questions about the DA’s probe. Mark Pomerantz spent roughly six hours with members of the GOP-led …

A woman accused country music star Jimmie Allen of sexual assault and harassment while she worked as his manager for two years, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday. The 25-year-old said she graduated college magna cum laude, and was hired by management group Wide Open Music as Allen’s …

High up in the Swiss Alps, a tiny village’s picturesque scenery may also be its undoing. By sundown Friday, the 100-odd residents of Brienz must evacuate their homes — or risk being crushed by 70 million cubic feet of rock. A huge chunk of the Lenzerhorn mountain, which looms over …

A Chicago woman arrested in a series of unprovoked baseball bat attacks on other women was accused of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and other crimes, authorities said Thursday. Denise Solorzano, 26, also faces multiple counts of aggravated battery in a public place and aggravated assault with a motor …

The CIA says it has taken action to improve how the agency handles sexual assault cases after House members began investigating complaints that it had mishandled sexual misconduct allegations. The CIA appointed a new director for the office that oversees sexual assault complaints, Taleeta Jackson, a psychologist who served in …

The 24-year-old subway rider who was seen in a video putting a homeless man in a fatal chokehold on a New York City train is expected to be charged in the incident as soon as Friday, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Daniel J. Penny, a Marine veteran, …

A Utah man who died after his wife allegedly spiked his drink with fentanyl — and then wrote a children’s book about grief — had suspected she tried to poison him multiple times and said “she was to blame” if anything happened to him, according to court records. Despite the …

A Dutch man who was suspected in the 2005 disappearance of 18-year-old American Natalee Holloway is being extradited from Peru to the U.S. in connection with a fraud case, Peru officials said Wednesday. Joran van der Sloot is serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru for the 2010 killing of …

Former President Donald Trump mocked E. Jean Carroll as a “whack job” and insisted her account of being sexually assaulted by him decades ago was “fake” and “made up” one day after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer. During a CNN town hall at …