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The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) sharply rejected a judge's justification for releasing former Trump attorney Michael Cohen back to home confinement on Thursday, saying the decision was based on "patently false" assertions.Earlier Thursday, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Alvin Hellerstein said the recent move by the Justice Department (DOJ) to put Cohen back in prison…

PORTLAND, Ore. — David Harris had no idea he was about to be hit with tear gas.He had attended Tuesday night’s protests outside the federal courthouse and dozed off by a tree when he woke up early the next morning to chaos.“I couldn't see,” he said. “I ran with my eyes closed, tears and snot…

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrage over a Republican lawmaker’s verbal assault broadened into an extraordinary moment on the House floor on Thursday as she and other Democrats assailed a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women” whose adherents include Donald Trump. A day after rejecting an offer of contrition from Republican congressman Ted…

The inspector general for the Justice Department announced Thursday that he was investigating use-of-force allegations against federal law enforcement officers in Portland, Oregon, as well as their response to protesters in Washington, D.C.Inspector General Michael Horowitz said he had opened the inquiry into the heavily criticized federal response to protests near government buildings in Portland…

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