Rebecca Beitsch
FOX8 WGHP
Washington, DC, United States
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White supremacist propaganda jumps to all-time high in US: ADL
The United States saw its highest-ever distribution of white supremacist propaganda last year, jumping 38% over 2021, according to data collected by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). → Read More
Speaker delay halts national security briefings for lawmakers
Lawmakers say they can’t even go into a special room known as the sensitive compartmented information facility or SCIF where they discuss top-secret information with national security officials. → Read More
Jan. 6 panel reaches ‘general agreement’ on criminal referrals to DOJ
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has come to a “general agreement” to forward some criminal referrals to the Justice Department, its chair told reporters Tuesday. It was a confusing morning at the Capitol, with Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) walking back statements he made earlier in the day when […] → Read More
Oath Keepers leader found guilty of seditious conspiracy
Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers group, was found guilty Tuesday of seditious conspiracy over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, a win for the Justice Department as it pursues the little-used charge for members of multiple extremist groups who contributed to the chaos at the Capitol. Florida chapter leader […] → Read More
Supreme Court declines to shield Trump tax returns from Congress
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency appeal from former President Donald Trump seeking to shield his tax returns from House Democrats, capping a multiyear legal battle and paving the way for the release of his tax returns. → Read More
Trump 2024 bid won’t deter DOJ amid criminal probes
What does Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to seek the White House in 2024 mean for the numerous criminal probes into the former president? Not a whole lot. “The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into Donald Trump even though he was the former president, a likely candidate, and the de facto leader of […] → Read More
House Judiciary GOP charts course for FBI, DOJ probes in 1,050-page report
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released a lengthy staff report Friday on alleged politicization and anti-conservative bias in the FBI and Department of Justice, a document that will serve as a road map for more probes of the agencies if the GOP wins control of the House in next week’s midterm election → Read More
Watchdog points to dire conditions in Afghanistan amid US agencies’ resistance to oversight
A government watchdog is offering a grim update on life in Afghanistan since the U.S. withdrawal while chastising American agencies for rebuffing its attempts to review their efforts in the country since the Taliban takeover. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), which has been reviewing multiple agencies’ work in the troubled nation for […] → Read More
Steve Bannon sentenced to four months in prison
The judge also agreed to stay his ruling while Bannon appeals his guilty verdict. → Read More
Justice wants 6-month jail sentence for Steve Bannon
The Justice Department is calling for one-time White House strategist Steve Bannon to serve six months of jail time and pay a $200,000 fine for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. → Read More
Trump skirts testimony question in blistering 14-page Jan. 6 response
Former President Donald Trump on Friday skirted the question of whether he would testify under subpoena in a 14-page response to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, instead doubling down on his disproven claims that the 2020 election was stolen. → Read More
Five things to watch for at Thursday’s Jan. 6 hearing
The House panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold its ninth hearing Thursday, the latest in a series of open forums aimed to demonstrate that former President Donald Trump sought to remain in power illicitly following his 2020 election defeat. → Read More
Treasury investigating DeSantis migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard
The Treasury Department watchdog has agreed to investigate any potential misuse of federal funding behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) flights that left 50 migrants on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., last month. In a letter to Massachusetts lawmakers sent Friday but publicly shared Wednesday, the department indicated its probe has begun, noting it has “already sought […] → Read More
Judge says Trump can hold off on affirming accuracy of FBI’s Mar-a-Lago inventory
The order from Cannon comes after Trump’s legal team penned a letter to Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master, complaining his “management plan exceeds the grant of authority from the district court on this issue.” → Read More
Ginni Thomas gives interview to Jan. 6 panel
(The Hill) – Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, gave a voluntary interview Thursday with the House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The interview with Thomas caps a months-long effort by the committee to speak with the conservative activist, who reportedly exchanged emails with […] → Read More
Special master tells Trump team: ‘You can’t have your cake and eat it’
The judge assigned to review the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago pushed back against attorneys for Donald Trump on Tuesday as they dance around whether the former president ever declassified the documents in his home. → Read More
Jan. 6 panel set to reemerge with eye on Newt Gingrich
The House panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to revive the public portion of its probe this month, eyeing at least two more hearings in the coming weeks to highlight former President Trump’s role in the deadly rampage. Publicly, the inquiry into the Jan. 6 attack has been overshadowed in […] → Read More
Five things to watch as a special master looks at FBI’s seized Trump documents
Monday’s court ruling requiring an independent review of documents seized last month from Mar-a-Lago is raising new legal questions about the reach of executive privilege while scrambling the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into former President Trump. The decision passed down by Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon sets the stage for her to appoint […] → Read More
Scrutiny builds over FBI’s discovery of empty folders at Mar-a-Lago
(The Hill) – Among the material allegedly seized from former President Trump’s home were numerous empty folders that once contained classified information or intel designated to be returned to the military, renewing questions over fallout from the potential mishandling of records and if they have since been recovered. In an inventory from the Justice Department […] → Read More
Unsealed Mar-a-Lago inventory details items recovered from Trump’s office
Justice Department records unsealed on Friday offer new details about the volume of documents former President Trump stored in his personal office at Mar-a-Lago, as well as other items seized during the search of his Florida home. → Read More