The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the writer who accused U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
The top U.S. government watchdog for consumer financial protection on Wednesday said it would reassign virtually all staff nationwide to its Washington headquarters later this year, the latest move likely to weaken an agency the Trump administration is seeking to minimize if not eliminate.
California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed under the Trump administration's nearly $1.8 billion fund for victims of alleged political "weaponization," the state's Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday.