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America’s monster: Capitol riot hearings reveal Trump’s malevolence
In his dystopian inaugural speech, President Donald Trump promised to end ‘American carnage’. Instead, he delivered it. Now he needs to be held accountable.
- by Maureen Dowd
AG misled Congress on Trump’s action during Mueller probe: judge
She also criticised William Barr for spinning the investigation’s findings before the report was released, allowing Trump to claim he had been exonerated.
- by Michael S. Schmidt
Barr's final act is rejecting Trump's last-grasp election scheme
The attorney-general also backed official warnings that Russia is behind the enormous US government hack, as a Senator reveals Treasury emails were compromised.
- by Michael Balsamo
US charges bombmaker in 1988 Pan Am explosion
The US Justice Department has announced new charges against a Libyan bombmaker in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
- by Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo
Donald Trump says Attorney-General Barr resigns
Barr, in a letter to Trump posted by the Republican president on Twitter, said he would leave his post on December 23.
- by Michael Balsamo
William Barr said to be mulling an exit before Trump’s term ends
It was not clear whether the A-G’s decisions were influenced by Trump’s refusal to concede or his fury over Barr’s admission about there was no voting fraud.
- by Katie Benner, Michael S. Schmidt and Peter Baker
US AG Barr: No evidence of fraud that would change election outcome
Barr's comments come despite President Donald Trump's repeated claims that the election was stolen, and his refusal to concede his loss to President-elect Joe Biden.
- by Michael Balsamo
US to carry out first federal execution of a woman in seven decades
The last woman to be executed by the US government was put to death in a gas chamber in 1953.
- by Brendan O'Brien
Trump presses loyal Pompeo, Barr for dirt to use against Biden
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo vowed that his team is doing "everything we can" to release additional emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure at the department.
- by Chris Strohm, Jordan Fabian and Nick Wadhams
William Barr claims it's a 'false narrative' that many black people are shot by white police officers
US Attorney-General William Barr also said mail-in ballots for the November 3 election could be vulnerable to fraud, echoing President Donald Trump.
- by Eric Beech
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