Author: Derek Hawkins

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The Secret Service has launched an effort to expand by about 20 percent to relieve pressure on an overstretched workforce and reduce reliance on outside agencies.

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Among the Epstein files are records on his death in New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, but nothing so far challenges a ruling that he died by suicide.

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Judiciary officials had asked lawmakers for an additional $142 million for security for lower federal courts, a 19 percent increase.

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A former National Enquirer publisher who helped burnish Donald Trump’s image is set to be among the prosecution’s first witnesses in Trump’s hush money trial.

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In a process that could take weeks, potential jurors will respond to a questionnaire and answer follow-up questions from prosecutors and defense lawyers.

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The controversial history of Mifepristone, from idea to FDA approval to its threatened suspension.

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Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts. Here’s a refresher of who’s who in the case.

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NATO’s guidelines say countries should spend 2 percent of their GPD on defense each year. Here’s the breakdown of how much NATO members spend on defense, by GDP.

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With another shutdown deadline approaching and no permanent solution at hand, federally contracted service workers are again confronting painstaking decisions about how to survive a shutdown without income or backpay.