(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General John Skidmore met with reporters to discuss how the Office of Special Prosecutions in the Alaska Law Department reviews officer-involved shooting cases. There have been nine officer-involved shootings in Alaska in 2024, five of them in Anchorage since May. “The Office of Special Prosecutions’ review of use-of-deadly-force incidents […]
Brazil’s far-right ex-president has applied for a visa to remain in the U.S. amid worsening legal troubles in his home country, where he is facing multiple investigations. Brazil’s far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has applied for a six-month visitor visa to remain in the United States amid worsening legal troubles in his home country. U.S. authorities received Bolsonaro’s […]
WASHINGTON — As newly ascendant House Republicans get down to business, they’re vowing to forge ahead with long-promised investigations of the Biden administration, from the U.S. military’s chaotic and bloody withdrawal from Afghanistan to the alleged weaponization of the Justice Department and the FBI. Shrugging off accusations that they’re about to launch revenge hearings as payback […]
WASHINGTON — Former U.S. President Donald Trump left office more than a year ago, but his conduct in the waning weeks of his presidency as he tirelessly sought to remain in power and his reported role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, remain a focal point of the American political scene […]