The Department of Justice will significantly loosen federal cannabis restrictions‚ marking the biggest shift in drug laws in more than half a century. The change follows a decade of seismic changes in cannabis policies across the country‚ with 24 states legalizing possession for adults — representing more than half of the U.S. population — and 38 states establishing medical marijuana programs. The DOJ’s decision was first reported by the Associated Press‚ and confirmed to POLITICO by an...

A Virginia man who &;quot;meandered&;quot; around the Capitol building after the January 6‚ 2021‚ riot has lost his $100 million lawsuit against CNN. Virginia federal judge Arenda Wright Allen‚ an appointee of former President Barack Obama‚ dismissed the case on Monday before it reached trial. Jacob Hiles‚ a charter boat captain from Virginia Beach‚ alleged that CNN defamed him in an online article published on October 15‚ 2021‚ about rioters at the Capitol building. The article's sub-headline...

The college protests across the nation saw a slew of headline-grabbing developments on Tuesday‚ including the takeover of a building at Columbia University‚ a new House-wide effort by Republicans to investigate antisemitism and a major victory for activists at Brown University.   The big success of the day for pro-Palestinian protesters came out of Brown‚ where President Christina Paxson announced Tuesday that students will end their encampment after an agreement was reached between...

Jareh Sebastian Dalke disabled the location tracking system on his car then drove north from his home in Colorado Springs to Denver's Union Station. He made sure to leave without his phone. The 31-year-old former US National Security Agency (NSA) employee parked several blocks away‚ walking to the train station with a laptop‚ a memory card‚ a gun and a note with handwritten instructions for his clandestine mission. Dalke had spent several months communicating via email and transmitting...

A top House Republican is accusing special counsel Jack Smith of election interference as the prosecutor leads two criminal cases against former President Donald Trump. House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) announced on Tuesday that she had filed an ethics complaint against Smith with the Office of Professional Responsibility at the Department of Justice (DOJ). In her letter‚ which Stefanik posted to X‚ the congresswoman requested that Office of Professional...

Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in most polls in key swing states‚ but in many of those states’ pivotal Senate races‚ GOP candidates are lagging behind. An Emerson College-the Hill poll released on Tuesday shows Trump leading Biden in seven swing states‚ while in five of those states’ Senate races‚ the leading Republican candidate is behind the Democrat. In Pennsylvania‚ the former president holds a 47%-45% lead over Biden‚ but Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) holds a 46...

House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding Matthew Colangelo‚ a lead prosecutor in former President Trump’s Manhattan criminal case‚ requesting documents and communications from Colangelo’s tenure at the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ). The Daily Caller obtained a copy of the letter before it was sent‚ in which Jordan demands a number of personnel files related to Colangelo’s hiring‚ employment and termination at the DOJ‚ a...

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