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Former President Donald Trump is appealing a court ruling that would force several of his former aides, including Mark Meadows, to testify before a grand jury as part of the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.The mid-March ruling from US District Judge Beryl Howell, who was then the chief judge of DC's federal trial court, is one of several defeats the former president has suffered in his efforts to use executive privilege claims to block the testimony of former aides and allies in the Justice Department's special counsel investigations.

A federal judge has ordered several former Donald Trump aides, including Mark Meadows, to testify before a grand jury as part of the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, rejecting the former president's claims of executive privilege, multiple sources confirmed to CNN.Trump's legal team had challenged subpoenas issued by special counsel Jack Smith demanding testimony and documents from Meadows, the former president's White House chief of staff, as well as several others by asserting executive privilege.

Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump went to the Justice Department on Monday, two weeks after requesting a meeting with Attorney General Merrick B. Garland to discuss their concerns about the special counsel investigations into Mr. Trump's conduct, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The National Archives has informed former president Donald Trump that it is set to hand over to special counsel Jack Smith 16 records that show Trump and his top advisers had knowledge of the correct declassification process while he was president, according to multiple sources.In a May 16 letter obtained by CNN, acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall writes to Trump, The 16 records in question all reflect communications involving close presidential advisers, some of them directed to you personally, concerning whether, why, and how you should declassify certain classified records.

The United States Justice Department announced the successful completion of a court-authorized operation, dubbed Operation MEDUSA, which claims to have successfully disrupted a global peer-to-peer network of computers infected by the sophisticated Snake malware.This malware, attributed to a unit within Center 16 of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), has been used for nearly two decades to steal sensitive documents from hundreds of computer systems in at least 50 countries, including NATO member governments, journalists, and other targets of interest to the Russian Federation.

Sen. Ron Wyden said GOP budget cuts decimated the IRS's ability to "root out this kind of offshore tax evasion scheme."Credit Suisse bank offices in Zurich, Switzerland, on March 23, 2023.FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday published the results of a two-year investigation showing that the scandal-plagued Swiss bank Credit Suisse has been complicit in a "massive, ongoing conspiracy" to help wealthy U.S. citizens dodge taxes.

Speaking to mark six months since the crowd crush in which Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, and security worker Gaby Hutchinson, 23, were fatally injured, the mayor said the music venue's future was a secondary issue, compared with the police investigation into what happened on the night.The Met has launched a corporate manslaughter probe.

P olice have launched a corporate manslaughter probe into the crowd crush at the O2 Academy Brixton as it emerged one victim's young sons are asking: Where's mummy?Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, and security worker Gaby Hutchinson, 23, were fatally injured when ticketless fans tried to force their way into a concert by Nigerian Afrobeats artist Asake in December.

The infant sons of a concertgoer who died following a crowd crush outside the O2 Academy Brixton six months ago are starting to realise their mother is not coming home, family members have said.Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, of Newham, east London, and security worker Gaby Hutchinson, 23, of Gravesend, Kent, who was on duty at the south London venue, died days after being hurt when ticketless fans tried to get into a show by Nigerian Afrobeats artist Asake in December.

The latest incident of racist abuse towards Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr has been reported to the Spanish prosecutor's office as a hate crime, the club says.Following the match, in which the 22-year-old Brazil international was later sent off for violent conduct, he said "La Liga belongs to racists".

Special counsel John Durham, the prosecutor appointed to investigate potential government wrongdoing in the early days of the Trump-Russia probe, arrives to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington on May 16, 2022.Evan Vucci/AP The special counsel-led investigation looking into the FBI's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 Trump campaign has ended, the Department of Justice announced Monday, and in a 306-page final report, concludes the FBI did not have enough intelligence to merit a full Trump-Russia probe investigation.

P olice are re-examining the case of an eight-year-old boy who was abducted as he walked home from school in London in 1981.Vishal Mehrotra went missing as he returned home to Putney on the day of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer's wedding.His body was found in woodland in Rogate, West Sussex, around seven months later.

Ofsted's chief inspector has told MPs its inspection system did not work as well as it should, as she defended the watchdog's failure to spot mistreatment of more than 100 youngsters over several years at a large residential school for disabled children.Amanda Spielman was quizzed by the education select committee over why Ofsted had rated three Doncaster educational facilities run by the Hesley Group as good in 2019, despite evidence of a string of complaints and serious incidents going back to 2015.

WASHINGTON Court-approved surveillance targeting people on domestic soil for national security purposes ticked up slightly last year after dipping for three straight years amid factors like the coronavirus, the decline of the Islamic State and President Donald J. Trump's attacks on the F.B.I., according to a report released on Friday.

Police Scotland is not in the same area as the Metropolitan Police over the handling of misconduct claims, a senior policing figure has said.Speaking to BBC Scotland's The Nine on Tuesday, David Kennedy, general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, said the way we police in Scotland is different to the rest of the UK, following the publication of a damning report into culture and standards at Britain's biggest force.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Co Antrim woman Chloe Mitchell have launched a murder inquiry after suspected human remains were found in Ballymena.Ms Mitchell, 21, was last seen on CCTV in the early hours of Saturday June 3 in Ballymena town centre in Northern Ireland.Detective Chief Inspector Richard Millar, of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said: Sadly, today detectives have recovered suspected human remains in Ballymena, and while there has been no formal identification, we have now launched a murder inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of 21-year-old Chloe Mitchell, who was a high-risk, missing person.

A major search for a missing Co Antrim woman is continuing one week on from her disappearance.Police are pursuing a criminal investigation into the disappearance of Chloe Mitchell, 21, from Ballymena.A 26-year-old man was arrested in Lurgan, Co Armagh, on Thursday in connection with the case.He remained in police custody on Saturday afternoon.

Several people who attended concerts by the German band Rammstein have come forward describing a system whereby young female fans are recruited to have sex with the shock rockers' lead singer, Till Lindemann, during and after their shows, following one fan's allegation that her drink had been spiked at an afterparty in Vilnius last month.

The Fulton County district attorney's office is seeking information from two firms that were hired by the Trump campaign with investigating claims of voter fraud after the 2020 election, according to sources familiar with the matter.Investigators in Georgia, who have been probing Donald Trump and his allies' efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election there, have sought information from Berkeley Research Group and Simpatico Software Systems about their work for the Trump campaign, the sources said.

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Orange County sheriff's officials are being accused in court records of planting evidence by moving drugs found in one investigation into the file of a second, unrelated drug case.More than 17 grams of methamphetamine were found in five plastic bags in a room of a Buena Park motel during an investigation in 2020.

DAVENPORT, Iowa - The bodies of three Iowa men have been removed from the site of a collapsed six-story apartment building about a week after part of the century-old structure tumbled to the ground, the city of Davenport's police chief announced Monday."We don't have any other information at this time that there are any additional people missing," Chief Jeff Bladel said.

A defense lawyer was making a constitutional argument in the Guantanamo war court that the clock had run out on a case involving terrorist attacks in Indonesia 20 years ago when he was suddenly drowned out by white noise.It is repugnant were the last words the public heard from Lt. Ryan P. Hirschler, a military lawyer on the defense team.

AZ Alkmaar have issued 43 stadium bans after West Ham United fans were attacked during their Europa Conference League semi-final defeat.The Premier League side won the second leg in the Netherlands 1-0 to secure a 3-1 victory on aggregate.In a statement, the Dutch club said more bans could follow in the future.

Micah Richards says La Liga president Javier Tebas' response to the racist abuse suffered by Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr "makes my blood boil".Vinicius has been the target of racist abuse multiple times this season and the latest incident has seen him receive support from the footballing world.

The resignation of a French mayor targeted by the far right over plans to move an asylum-seekers' centre prompted a political outcry Thursday after he faced death threats and an arson attack on his home.Published: 11 May 2023 13:37 CEST The resignation of Yannick Morez, mayor of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins in western France, comes as support for the far right swells and mainstream parties seek to channel anti-immigration sentiment.

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A former high-level lawyer in the Los Angeles city attorney's office was sentenced Tuesday to nine months of home detention and three years of probation for his role in a corruption scheme linked to billing problems at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

Police arrested suspects and raided homes early Wednesday across Germany and Italy in a massive effort to clamp down on members of the Italian 'ndrangheta organized crime syndicate.In Germany, more than 1,000 officers searched dozens of homes, offices and stores in the states of Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia, prosecutors said in a joint statement.

P&O Ferries is confident of avoiding a fine for sacking nearly 800 seafarers without notice.The annual report of the DP World-owned ferry operator, seen by the PA news agency, said its directors think an ongoing inquiry by the Insolvency Service will not result in any punishment.Some 786 of the company's workers were made redundant without consultation on March 17 2022, leading to widespread criticism from politicians and trade unions.

Demonstrators on Thursday (April 27) opposed the council's move outside its town hall in Whitechapel.It comes after a fire on March 5 at a flat in Maddocks House, Shadwell killed dad-of-two Mizanur Rahman, 41 and left 17 without a home.Many of the survivors, who were housed by the council in hotels until this morning, said they are unable to afford conventional homes and now face long-term homelessness.

After processing what he heard on cable television, former President Donald Trump publicly announced two weeks ago that on Tuesday, March 21, he would be arrested by the New York Police Department.That day came and went with no arrest.Mr. Trump is the subject of four criminal investigations: one by the Manhattan district attorney for campaign finance fraud; one by the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney for conspiracy to subvert an election; and two by the feds, one for conspiracy to subvert a congressional function on Jan. 6, 2021, and the other for retention of national defense secrets at his Florida home and obstruction of justice by hiding the secrets.

T he Met officer who shot Chris Kaba dead was today facing potential criminal charges as the police watchdog announced it was referring the killing to the Crown Prosecution Service.The Independent Office for Police Conduct said it had decided to send a file of evidence to prosecutors on the basis of the findings of its months of investigation into the fatal shooting of Mr Kaba, a 24-year-old black Londoner, in the car he was driving in Streatham Hill in September last year.

The Crown Prosecution Service is to consider charges over the fatal shooting of a man after a police pursuit.The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has concluded its homicide investigation into the shooting of Chris Kaba by a Met Police officer and has referred a file of evidence to the CPS.

The police watchdog has passed a file of evidence to prosecutors to decide whether a Metropolitan Police officer should be charged over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man.Chris Kaba, 24, who had been due to become a father, died after he was hit by a single gunshot fired by an armed officer on September 5 last year in Streatham Hill, south London.

The UK's illegal migration bill could mean modern slavery victims are less likely to give evidence against traffickers, Theresa May has said.The former Conservative prime minister warned MPs that slave drivers and traffickers will find it easier to escape justice under Rishi Sunak's immigration plans.

Russia's ex-President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that any attempt to arrest President Vladimir Putin abroad would be seen as "a declaration of war."The International Criminal Court (ICC) based in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Putin last week for alleged war crimes."Let's imagine obviously this situation which will never be realized but nevertheless lets imagine that it was realized: The current head of the nuclear state went to a territory, say Germany, and was arrested," Medvedev said in a video posted to Telegram late on Wednesday.