South Africa’s Ruling Party Under Scrutiny at Home and in US

U.S. President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office at the White House on May 21, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images JOHANNESBURG—South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC), in power since apartheid ended in 1994, is being assaulted on two fronts, with salvos fired from inside the government, as well as from

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey Tapped as Co-Deputy FBI Director

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey leaves the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on March 18, 2024. Bonnie Cash/Reuters U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has named Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as a co-deputy director of the FBI, where he will work alongside Dan Bongino. Bailey will resign from his current position to assume the new

Judge gives Trump administration partial victory in “Alligator Alcatraz” case

A federal judge on Monday tossed out part of a lawsuit brought by detainees at a temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, handing a partial victory to the Trump administration and Florida state officials — though other challenges over “Alligator Alcatraz” are still pending.  Civil rights attorneys had sued the Trump administration and

Federal Court Appoints Jay Clayton to Continue Serving as Manhattan’s US Attorney

Jay Clayton, former chairman of the SEC, speaks during 13D Monitor’s Active-Passive Investor Summit in New York on Oct. 22, 2024. Brendan McDermid/Reuters A federal court has appointed Jay Clayton to continue serving as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York as his term as interim attorney came to an end without