The FBI has ordered field offices across the country to send analysts to Atlanta for a record review tied to the 2020 election investigation in Fulton County, Georgia. The memo seeks 260 personnel and sets a July 17 deadline for completing records checks.
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Seven more defendants received prison terms in the federal case over a shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas. Prosecutors called the protest an antifa-linked ambush, while defense attorneys said there was no planned attack.
The Supreme Court will decide whether Arizona may require documentary proof of citizenship from people registering to vote with a state form. The case also covers state procedures for removing noncitizens from voter rolls before elections.
Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, accused of being a leading figure in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud case, was arrested in Mogadishu after more than four years as a fugitive. U.S. officials said the FBI worked with Somali intelligence agencies to take him into custody.
Billionaire Leon Black is set to testify behind closed doors before House investigators examining Jeffrey Epstein’s network. Lawmakers are expected to question him about roughly $170 million in payments he made to Epstein between 2012 and 2017.
Chemours will pay and spend at least $450 million to resolve federal and state claims that its plants illegally discharged PFAS chemicals for more than a decade. The settlement is the first federal enforcement deal with a PFAS manufacturer, though North Carolina’s attorney general criticized it as inadequate.
Trump canceled a planned signing of a bipartisan housing bill, saying he would wait until Congress passes the SAVE America Act. Senate Republican leaders say the voting bill lacks the votes needed to pass under current rules.
Eight defendants received prison terms ranging from 30 to 100 years over a July 4 disturbance outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas. Prosecutors called the case terrorism tied to antifa, while defense lawyers and families denied antifa links and condemned the sentences as excessive.