Federal Reserve seeking to quash subpoenas in DOJ investigation, source says

The Federal Reserve has been mounting a closed-door effort to block the Justice Department’s subpoenas for chairman Jerome Powell, CBS News has learned. In January, Powell revealed that the Federal Reserve had received grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into him.  The subpoenas threatened a criminal indictment

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2/26: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News What happened during Hillary Clinton’s House deposition on Epstein; Boy who lost Pokémon binder gets over 15,000 cards from strangers link.lazyload { position: absolute; } .content__meta-wrapper::before { width: 100%; } .device–type-mobile .content__meta-wrapper::before { width: calc(100vw – 40px); } View CBS News In Original CBS News

This photo of Lutnick on Epstein’s island was removed from DOJ files

A photo released last month by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein files that showed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Epstein’s island in the Caribbean has been removed from the Justice Department’s website. The photo, which has been authenticated by CBS News, shows Epstein, Lutnick, and three

Prosecutor defends human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The lead prosecutor in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s human smuggling case acknowledged Thursday that he thought it was possible the charges would be viewed as vindictive, but he decided charging him was “the right thing to do.”  Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported to a supermax prison in his home country last year,

Pentagon locked in standoff with Anthropic over AI guardrails

Pentagon locked in standoff with Anthropic over AI guardrails – CBS News Watch CBS News With less than 24 hours left, Anthropic and the Pentagon are locked in a standoff over access to the company’s powerful artificial intelligence. Jo Ling Kent reports. link.lazyload { position: absolute; } .content__meta-wrapper::before { width: 100%; } .device–type-mobile .content__meta-wrapper::before {

About a dozen FBI staff who worked on Trump documents case fired, sources say

The FBI fired more employees Thursday linked to investigations into President Trump after terminating at least 10 Wednesday, multiple sources confirmed. Overall, the rough estimate is about a dozen in total over two days.  The firings began after FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that former special counsel Jack Smith had subpoenaed his phone records as