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The Justice Department has dropped its case against former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, erasing his guilty plea in the Mueller probe and ending a years-long saga over his sentencing. In a court filing Thursday, the Department of Justice said that “based on an extensive review and careful consideration of the circumstances ... continued…

Washington (CNN)The Justice Department is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, whose lies about his contacts with Russia prompted Trump to fire him three years ago and special counsel Robe…

BREAKINGThe extraordinary move came after the former national security adviser had fought the case in court for months, a reversal after pleading guilty twice and cooperating with investigators.Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, pleaded guilty in late 2017 to lying to investigators.Credit...Samuel Corum for The New York TimesMay 7, 2020Updated 3:24 p.m. ETWASHINGTON…

The Notorious R.B.G. appears to be A-OK.Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital on Wednesday after being treated for gallstones, the court said in a statement.Ginsburg underwent nonsurgical treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday for a benign gallbladder condition that was causing an infection. The condition was detected…

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is siding with a rural Virginia church that sued the state's governor after the pastor was charged with violating a social distancing order.The government filed court papers Sunday in support of Lighthouse Fellowship Church in Chincoteague on Virginia's eastern shore, which said the state improperly discriminated by insisting that the…