More than 20% of NASA’s workforce requests to leave agency

Nearly 4,000 employees, or more than 20% of NASA’s workforce, have applied to leave the agency, NASA confirmed to CBS News Friday. About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, NASA disclosed. The deadline for applications to the program is midnight Friday. With those deferred

Breaking down latest Justice Department shakeup

Alina Habba, a one-time personal lawyer to President Trump, has been appointed to the top federal prosecutor job in New Jersey. Meanwhile, two federal prosecutors who had handled cases related to the attacks of Jan. 6, along with the top ethics watchdog at the department., have been fired. Scott MacFarlane has details. Original CBS News

DOJ’s closed-door meetings with Ghislaine Maxwell fuels pardon speculation

President Trump is still being hounded by the case of Jeffrey Epstein. It’s not clear if a second day of meetings between a top Trump administration official and Epstein’s imprisoned co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell will cool the controversy. But as Scott MacFarlane reports, it is raising a new question: Is Maxwell about to score a deal?

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To former prosecutors, DOJ interview with Ghislaine Maxwell looked unorthodox

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met for a second day with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, without offering more than a broad rationale for his hours of questioning. Multiple former federal prosecutors told CBS News they were bewildered by his decision to launch into such talks and described the unfolding events as both unorthodox and