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In a new book, the man who was U.S. attorney in Manhattan during over half of Donald Trump's presidency says he was repeatedly pressured by Justice Department officials to use his office to aid them politically.

Najib Razak is Malaysia’s first former prime minister to go to prison -- a mighty fall for a politician whose father and uncle were also prime ministers.

The IRS commissioner has asked the Treasury Department’s internal watchdog to immediately review the circumstances surrounding intensive tax audits that targeted ex-FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

Two years after completing a White House summer internship, Cassidy Hutchinson was in the room where the president’s top aides debated how they could overturn his election loss.

How his 52-point loss stacks up to others in recent years.

Kate McKinnon and Pete Davidson are among those departing from “Saturday Night Live,” leaving the sketch institution without arguably its two most famous names after Saturday's finale of its 47th season.

Empathy is not a quality many Republican senators want to see in the next Supreme Court justice.

The initiative will allow local departments to seek federal partnerships and technical assistance to implement reforms ranging from use of force to officers' mental health.

Prosecutors have initiated discussions on a potential plea agreement to resolve the long-stalled case of five men held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, charged with planning and providing assistance for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The Justice Department is scrapping the name of a Trump-era initiative intended to crack down on economic espionage by Beijing but criticized as unfairly targeting Chinese professors at American colleges because of their ethnicity.

The U.S. government has withdrawn from settlement negotiations to end lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who were forcibly separated under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border policy.

Energy and Environment Reporter Josh Siegel joins Jim Antle to discuss expected rises in natural gas costs.

The White House on Friday said it will lift COVID-19 travel restrictions for fully vaccinated foreign nationals effective Nov. 8, ending historic restrictions that had barred much of the world from entering the United States.

Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991, but few countries recognise it statehood. The territory of 4.5 million is fiercely proud of its independence, but three decades on, the lack of official status hobbles economic hopes.

Former President Donald Trump is clinging to his "Big Lie," saying this week Republicans will not vote in the upcoming midterm and general elections until alleged voter fraud in 2020 is "solved." Historian Timothy Snyder joined CBSN with a look at the potential threat those unsubstantiated claims pose to our democracy.

When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed to a temporary increase in the debt ceiling, he was skewered from some quarters of the GOP for opening the door to the passage of the Democrats' 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation bill. But McConnell, ever the strategic thinker, may yet prove prescient. His calculation that Senators Manchin and Sinema won’t budge on passage of the massive entitlement bill is so far proving correct. As Doug McKelway reports, widespread economic malaise and President Biden’s falling popularity only strengthens Manchin and Sinema’s hand.

For about 15 years, Mireya Villarreal has been on the front lines of the immigration story, covering every dimension of the issue, on both sides of the southern border. She shares a personal reflection on what it's been like -- as a journalist and a mother.

"I didn't know what a marathon was until today", says one of a group of Syrian orphans taking part in a race in the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib. The event has been organised by an NGO in a bid to introduce children who have lost their parents in Syria's ongoing conflict to different kinds of sports. Nearly 500,000 people have died in the conflict since it started in 2011 with the brutal repression of peaceful demonstrations.

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to a Southern California hospital on Tuesday with an infection but he is “on the mend,” his spokesman said.

McCabe always insisted he was targeted in a campaign to discredit the former special counsel's investigation into Russian meddling into the 2016 election.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing during the Trump administration more than three years ago.

Addressing some of the economic anxieties caused by immigration could help ease some of the cultural ones.

Chelsea Clinton has a full schedule of books coming in 2022.

A watchdog agency investigating the origins of a failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census form was unable to question top Trump administration officials because they either refused to cooperate or set unacceptable interview terms.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has formally prohibited federal prosecutors from seizing the records of journalists in leak investigations.

A federal judge in Texas on Friday ordered an end to an Obama-era program that prevented the deportations of some immigrants brought into the United States as children, putting new pressure for action on President Joe Biden and Democrats who now control Congress.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has tossed a Trump administration policy that barred immigration judges from temporarily shelving some deportation cases.

President Biden is urging the Justice Department to stop seeking reporters’ email and phone records.

Park commissioners in Alabama reportedly scuttled a speaking appearance for former President Donald Trump over concerns the rally would devolve into a "partisan political event."

A Times reporter on the news that Democrats’ and reporters’ phone data were seized by the Justice Department.

In a victory for survivors of domestic and gang violence, the Department of Justice on Wednesday vacated the controversial Trump-era decisions.

Democrats say the data seizure targeting lawmakers and journalists was an attempt by the Trump administration to pursue political opponents.

Apple informed former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn and his wife that the Justice Department had subpoenaed information about accounts that belonged to them in 2018.

House speaker says reported seizure of Democrats’ private phone data undermined ‘rule of law’ Nancy Pelosi condemned the Trump justice department as former attorney generals claimed not to have been aware of the alleged information-harvesting efforts. Photograph: Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said on Sunday it was “beyond belief” that the three top justice department officials of Donald Trump’s administration had been unaware of secret subpoenas seeking private d

Two attorney generals and a deputy attorney general said they did not know the phone records of Democratic lawmakers critical of Trump being seized.

Former President Donald Trump has made no secret of his long list of political enemies.

Former President Donald Trump has made no secret of his long list of political enemies. Two House Democrats disclosed this week that their smartphone data was secretly obtained by the Trump Justice Department as part of an effort to uncover the source of leaks related to the investigation of Russian-related election interference. It was a stunning revelation that one branch of government was using its power to gather private information on another, a move that carried echoes of President Richard Nixon during Watergate.

Former President Donald Trump has made no secret of his long list of political enemies. Two House Democrats disclosed this week that their smartphone data was secretly obtained by the Trump Justice Department as part of an effort to uncover the source of leaks related to the investigation of Russian-related election interference. It was a stunning revelation that one branch of government was using its power to gather private information on another, a move that carried echoes of President Richard Nixon during Watergate.

Justice Dept.'s internal watchdog will investigate secret subpoenas to obtain records on Adam Schiff and others during Trump administration.

The Texas bar association is investigating whether state Attorney General Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.

Former White House counsel Don McGahn told lawmakers in a closed-door interview last week that he regarded President Donald Trump’s demand to have special counsel Robert Mueller fired as “a point of no return” for the administration if carried out.

Testimony to Congress from Donald Trump’s former top White House lawyer has “shed new light on several troubling events.”.

Washington Post, CNN and the New York Times were all subject to intrusive Justice Department subpoenas. The leaks targeted by the department, in all three cases, span the tumultuous early months of the Trump administration.

The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of four New York Times reporters as part of a leak investigation.

President Joe Biden is taking executive action to ensure minorities, low-income Americans and others have better access to quality legal representation after services dwindled during the Trump administration.

A 52-year-old teacher was sentenced to 15 years in prison for secretly recording videos of students as they changed clothes in his fashion design classroom at a Florida high school. Mark William Ackett also must remain a registered sex offender for the rest of his life.

It's a sharp example of how "conservativism" has evolved.

The Justice Department is sending a strong signal about its priorities these days.

Calls have grown for federal investigations into police killings across the nation since President Joe Biden took office and said he believes racial disparities in policing must change.

Garland said the DOJ will restore the process that was in place before ex-Trump AG Jeff Sessions imposed sharp restrictions on the use of consent decrees.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has rescinded a Trump-era memo that curtailed the use of consent decrees that federal prosecutors have used in sweeping investigations of police departments.

Judge Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden's pick to be attorney general, answers questions from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., as he appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Garland will now inherit a Justice Department embattled by a turbulent era under Trump, who insisted that the attorney general and the department must be loyal to him personally, battering the department’s reputation. In the last month of Trump's presidency, Attorney General William Barr resigned after refuting Trump's false claims that widespread electoral fraud had led to his defeat. Ad“Let’s hope our incoming attorney general applies that no-nonsense approach to the serious challenges facing the Department of Justice and our nation,” McConnell said. “So I very much want to be the kind of attorney general that you’re saying I could become, and I’ll do my best to become that kind of attorney general.”___Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.

Bowe Bergdahl filed the complaint in federal court in Washington, D.C. last month, asking a judge to overturn his court martial conviction. Bergdahl says Trump's statements and actions by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain and his military judge violated his Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial. In his appeal, Bergdahl said McCain intensely pressured the Army to charge him, calling Bergdahl a “deserter” and threatening to hold a hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee if Bergdahl went unpunished. But around that same time, Nance was appointed by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions — a member of Trump’s cabinet — to the immigration judge post, effective the following year. He wants a federal judge to overturn his conviction and sentence and expunge it from his record, restoring his military rights.

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department will ask U.S. attorneys who were appointed by former President Donald Trump to resign from their posts, as the Biden administration moves to transition to its own nominees, a senior Justice Department official said Monday. But the U.S. attorney overseeing the federal tax probe involving Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, will remain in place. The Justice Department has been investigating the finances of Hunter Biden, including scrutinizing some of his Chinese business dealings and other transactions. Hunter Biden confirmed the existence of the investigation in December after a round of subpoenas was issued in the case. CNN first reported that the Justice Department was seeking the resignations.

“I would say that is his greatest accomplishment, to get money allocated to the state for many different projects,” former Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead said. Still, the GOP primary could serve as a microcosm of the larger national tug of war over the direction of the Republican Party. While Shelby has amassed a conservative voting record, the measured Republican senator has not embraced the bombastic populist style of Trump and Trump-like candidates. I don’t think there is anyone who has meant more to the state of Alabama in that position in my lifetime,” former Gov. ___This story has been edited to correct that Bill Armistead is the former chairman of the Alabama Republican Party.

Acting Attorney General Monk Wilkinson issued a new directive immediately annulling Sessions' memo, which the Trump administration used to justify the policy of separating more than 2,800 migrant children from their parents in the spring of 2018. "While policies may change, our mission always remains the same: to seek justice under the law," he added. Sessions' directive in April 2018 resulted in a border-wide policy of separating migrant families. The separation policy was halted in June 2018 after a federal judge intervened and ordered the government to reunite all separated families. Multiple internal government reports have found that the Trump administration did not have an adequate plan in place to reunite the families after the parents were prosecuted.

A court-appointed committee has yet to find the parents of 628 children separated at the border early in the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)WASHINGTON – The Justice Department rescinded a Trump-era memo that established a “zero tolerance” enforcement policy for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, which resulted in thousands of family separations. Most families have not been prosecuted under zero tolerance since 2018, when the separations were halted, though separations have continued on a smaller scale. Prosecutions had dropped sharply after the Trump administration declared a pandemic-related health emergency that allows them to immediately expel Mexicans and many Central Americans without applying immigration laws. The “zero tolerance” policy was one of several increasingly restrictive policies aimed at discouraging migrants from coming to the Southern border.

Acting Attorney General Monk Wilkinson issued a new directive immediately annulling Sessions' memo, which the Trump administration used to justify the policy of separating more than 2,800 migrant children from their parents in the spring of 2018. "While policies may change, our mission always remains the same: to seek justice under the law," he added. Sessions' directive in April 2018 resulted in a border-wide policy of separating migrant families. The separation policy was halted in June 2018 after a federal judge intervened and ordered the government to reunite all separated families. Multiple internal government reports have found that the Trump administration did not have an adequate plan in place to reunite the families after the parents were prosecuted.

A court-appointed committee has yet to find the parents of 628 children separated at the border early in the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)WASHINGTON – The Justice Department on Tuesday rescinded a Trump-era memo that established a “zero tolerance” enforcement policy for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, which resulted in thousands of family separations. Most families have not been prosecuted under zero tolerance since 2018, when the separations were halted, though separations have continued on a smaller scale. Prosecutions had dropped sharply after the Trump administration declared a pandemic-related health emergency that allows them to immediately expel Mexicans and many Central Americans without applying immigration laws. The “zero tolerance” policy was one of several increasingly restrictive policies aimed at discouraging migrants from coming to the Southern border.

Biden on Wednesday ordered a “pause” on all wall construction within a week, one of 17 executive orders issued on his first day in office, including six dealing with immigration. The full amount under contract would have extended Trump’s wall to 664 miles (1,069 kilometers). Trump said the border wall would be “virtually impenetrable” and paid for by Mexico, which never happened. Company spokeswoman Liz Rogers said work at Friendship Park is separate and done by another company. ___This story has been corrected to show that border wall contractor SLSCO Ltd. says another company is doing the work at Friendship Park in San Diego.

Report blames former Attorney General Jeff Sessions for family separations at the border A scathing report from the Justice Department's internal watchdog blames former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his aides for the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border. It also says Sessions' office didn't anticipate the logistics for handling so many separated children, which has kept some children away from their parents to this day. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez spoke with Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers on CBSN about this report and the calls for the Biden-Harris administration to enact major immigration reform.

"[W]e need to take away children," Sessions said during a call in May 2018, according to contemporaneous notes taken by several U.S. attorneys. Rosenstein told investigators from the inspector general's office that he understood the zero tolerance policy would result in children being separated from their families. Many of the migrant parents separated from their children in 2017 and early 2018, however, were deported without them, complicating reunification efforts. Mr. Biden has pledged to create a task force to help locate separated parents who have yet to be located. "The incoming administration must reunite the separated families in the United States, but we cannot stop there," Gelernt said.

A court-appointed committee has yet to find the parents of 628 children separated at the border early in the Trump administration. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, along with other top leaders in the Trump administration, were bent on curbing immigration. The “zero tolerance” policy was one of several increasingly restrictive policies aimed at discouraging migrants from coming to the Southern border. This new report shows just how far the Trump administration was willing to go to destroy these families. Just when you think the Trump administration can’t sink any lower, it does.”The “zero tolerance” policy meant that any adult caught crossing the border illegally would be prosecuted for illegal entry.

Barr offered his resignation last Monday after weeks of tension with Trump brought about an early exit from his post. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)NEW YORK – President Donald Trump’s administration is ending how it began, with over-the-top declarations of praise for the chief executive. Attorney General William Barr offered his resignation last Monday after weeks of tension with Trump brought about an early exit from his post. In the six weeks since his defeat by Biden, Trump has been increasingly disengaged from his job. But with Trump largely in hiding, it fell to Pence to make a public show of meeting with those distributing the vaccine.

This combination photo shows Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at the 110th NAACP National Convention on July 24, 2019, in Detroit and the cover of her book "Persist." (AP Photo, left, and Metropolitan Books via AP)NEW YORK – Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a book coming out about six key experiences and perspectives. “Persist” will refer to Warren's recent bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, won by Joe Biden, but is not a campaign memoir. Warren was represented by Robert Barnett and Daniel Martin of Williams & Connolly, where clients have ranged from former President Bill Clinton to a political rival of Warren's, Sen. Mitch McConnell. A portion of author proceeds from “Perisist” will be donated to the Greater Boston Food Bank, the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, the Worcester County Food Bank, and the Merrimack Valley Food Bank.

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo, Attorney General William Barr speaks during a roundtable discussion on Operation Legend in St. Louis. Barr went Monday to the White House, where Trump said the attorney general submitted his letter of resignation. Trump said Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen, whom he labeled “an outstanding person,” will become acting attorney general. But Democrats have repeatedly accused Barr of acting more like the president’s personal attorney than the attorney general, and Barr had proved to be a largely reliable Trump ally and defender of presidential power. Trump was also said to blame Barr for comments from FBI Director Chris Wray on election fraud and mail-in voting that didn’t jibe with the president’s alarmist rhetoric.

Jones ran an ad showing Tuberville using the phrase to respond to student hecklers after leaving a coaching job. Three years ago, Jones became the first Alabama Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in a quarter-century. Although he was denied a full term in the Senate, Jones said there was important work to continue. Tuberville’s victory party was held in a hotel ballroom not far from the Alabama Capitol. Jones’ party was at an outside space in Birmingham where most people wore masks.

Jones has been on a campaign blitz while Tuberville has adopted a strategy akin to running out the clock. Tuberville has announced fewer public campaign events, concentrated media appearances on conservative talk radio and has refused to debate Jones. Trump is expected to easily carry the state again, meaning Jones would have to win over some Trump voters. There are some discouraging signs for Jones, including that national Democratic groups haven't reported significant spending in Alabama, according to finance reports. But if Jones does win, McCrary said it would cement the possibility that Democrats can win in areas once thought impossible.

(AP Photo/Michael Perez)SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Kamala Harris is poised to become a leading figure in the Democratic opposition to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick, with her status as both a lawmaker and vice presidential nominee putting her in the center of the fight. The California senator is in a unique role following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday. She was widely praised by Democrats for her questioning of Brett Kavanaugh during the last Supreme Court confirmation fight. Beyond her questioning of Kavanaugh, he pointed to her 2017 questioning of then-Sen. Jeff Sessions as Trump’s first attorney general. “That would give her the flexibility to be able to be in D.C., maybe a little bit more than during a traditional presidential campaign closing stretch,” he said.

The motion filed Friday seeks to have the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces re-examine the impartiality of retired Army Col. Jeffrey Nance, the military judge who sentenced Bergdahl. The motion says Nance was working to secure a job with the Department of Justice at the time of his ruling in the Bergdahl case. Following Trump’s comments, Bergdahl’s attorney asked Nance to dismiss the case because of Trump’s comments “vilifying” Bergdahl. While he declined to rule in the defense’s favor, he said at the time he had concerns about Trump’s comments affecting public perception of the military justice system. He said then that he would consider Trump’s comments a factor promoting leniency.

It’s one of the few times that a mainline Protestant denomination entered the national spotlight amid a volatile election year abounding in political news about evangelicals and Catholics. Rarely garnering national attention are the mainline Protestant denominations that dominated America’s political and civic leadership for much of its history, beginning in colonial times. Through the mid-20th century, most Protestants in the U.S. belonged to mainline churches, but now they are outnumbered by evangelicals. Polls in recent years indicate that about one-quarter of U.S. adults identify as evangelical, and less than 15% as mainline Protestant. The mainline churches have been politically active in a number of less-partisan ways, notably in registering voters and recruiting poll watchers.

Democratic Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama has called Republican challenger Tommy Tuberville Coach Clueless for the former football coach's recent comments about the coronavirus. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Democratic Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama called Republican challenger Tommy Tuberville “Coach Clueless” on Friday, stepping up attacks on the former college football coach for his recent comments about the coronavirus. Tuberville, a former college football coach, told FOX10 said he didn’t see the report. “And Doug Jones should have recognized that simple fact,” Tuberville campaign manager Paul Shashy wrote in an email. You don’t downplay those things that you know put people’s lives and their livelihoods in jeopardy,” Jones said.

Strzok, a former FBI agent who was fired because of derogatory text messages about Donald Trump, writes in a new book that he believes the president has been compromised by Russia. Strzok, for his part, expresses measured regret for the texts in Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump, due out Tuesday. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation revealed significant contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia but found insufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy. By his own count, Strzok says, Trump has attacked him since then more than 100 times in tweets. After Trump accused Strzok of treason, he appealed to the FBI for a statement condemning the remarks, but got none.

In her first two days as Joe Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris has fired off the campaign's sharpest criticism of President Donald Trump's shortcomings. And Harris herself was a critic of Bidens record on race, notably assailing him during a primary debate for previously opposing federally mandated busing. But Harris signaled Wednesday that shell offer a strong defense of Bidens record on race. Harris is already delivering for the campaign in a tangible way: With a record-breaking fundraising haul. Through her nearly two decades in California politics, Harris built a network of deep-pocketed donors in Hollywood and the state's legal circles.

As of this week, the ACLU has filed nearly 400 lawsuits and other legal actions against the Trump administration, some meeting with setbacks but many resulting in important victories. As of this week, the ACLU has filed nearly 400 lawsuits and other legal actions against the Trump administration, some meeting with setbacks but many resulting in important victories. Donald Trump has provided a full employment program for ACLU lawyers on all of our issues, Romero said. By a similar 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court also allowed the implementation of the Trump administration policy barring transgender people from enlisting in the military. In an email, Turley questioned the wisdom of the torrent of lawsuits against the Trump administration.

They ask Attorney General William Barr about elder fraud. Democrats have suggested he should be impeached and are holding hearings into what they say is the politicization of the Justice Department under his watch. Then, when Bush was elected, Barr joined the Justice Department first as assistant attorney general of the Office of Legal Counsel, then as deputy attorney general, and finally as attorney general. The actions have resulted in open letters signed by thousands of Justice Department alumni who have demanded Barrs resignation. He points to the Justice Department inspector generals report that found flaws in how the FBIs Russia investigation was conducted.

Tuberville has never held public office but cast himself as a better match with Alabama voters in his victory speech. What Doug really means is one liberal Alabama, Tuberville said on election night. I think Tuberville is probably a two touchdown favorite, Mowery said. Although Trump is expected to win Alabama easily, his margin in November might be less than in 2016, McCrary said. ... Its going to be a battle, but we are going to win the war," Alabama Republican Party chair Terry Lathan said.

But Sessions took special care when discussing the matter that dominated and ultimately doomed his comeback attempt. Sessions was the first sitting senator to endorse Trump in the 2016 primary campaign, but even that didnt necessarily mean Trump had the approval of a heavyweight. Sessions, once Alabama attorney general and a U.S. attorney under President Ronald Reagan, had been elected to the Senate in 1996. Yet in Trump, Sessions finally found his vessel. And despite all the brow beating, Sessions said Trump and those issues remain the right path for the GOP and the country.

Sessions faces former Auburn University football Coach Tommy Tuberville in the July 14 Republican runoff. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)MONTGOMERY, Ala. Seeking to reclaim his old Senate seat from Alabama, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces former college football coach Tommy Tuberville a political newcomer endorsed by President Donald Trump. Trump casts a long shadow over the Alabama race, backing Tuberville after turning decisively against his former Cabinet member. We dont want him back in Washington. Sessions responded quickly: My honor and integrity are far more important than these juvenile insults. He may be endorsing Tommy Tuberville today, but then they can have a falling out, McDade said.

Do not trust Jeff Sessions, Trump tweeted this spring. Do not trust Jeff Sessions, Trump tweeted this spring. He let our Country down.Sessions safely held the Senate seat for 20 years before resigning to lead Trump's Justice Department. Their alliance solidified as Trump adopted the hard-line immigration proposals that Sessions had championed for years in the Senate. Sessions once held the Senate seat so securely he didnt even draw a challenger.

President Donald Trump, left, stands with Attorney General Jeff Sessions on December 15, 2017 in Quantico, Virginia, before participating in the FBI National Academy graduation ceremony. In a letter sent this week, the Trump campaign's chief operating officer, Michael Glassner, excoriated Sessions for claiming to supporters in mailers that he's "Trump's #1 Supporter." Sessions will face college football coach Tommy Tuberville in a runoff election for the GOP nomination in July. Sessions was one of Trump's earliest supporters in the 2016 presidential campaign. "Devil's Bargain," a book written by reporter Josh Green, reports that Sessions was convinced to back Trump by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a blow to former attorney general Jeff Sessions attempt to reclaim his seat in the U.S. Senate, President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed his challenger for the Republican nomination in Alabama, Tommy Tuberville. Coach Tommy Tuberville, a winner, has my Complete and Total Endorsement, Trump wrote in a post on Twitter. After his surprise victory, he named Sessions the attorney general of the United States, the nations top law enforcement official. Trump has called his selection of Sessions as attorney general the biggest mistake of his presidency. Jones was the first Democrat in a quarter of a century to win a Senate seat in Alabama.

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions reacts after results are announced for his candidacy in the Republican Party U.S. Senate primary in Mobile, Alabama, U.S. March 3, 2020. Below are some highlights from Tuesdays races:ALABAMASessions, who in 2016 was the first Senate Republican to endorse Trump before joining his administration, is seeking his partys nomination to challenge incumbent Doug Jones, the Senates most imperiled Democrat. The two are expected to face each other in a runoff on March 31. With 71% of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Democrat Christy Smith and Republican Mike Garcia appeared headed to the top two slots. In addition to Smith, who had 33% of the vote late Tuesday, Democrats seeking the seat included Cenk Uygur, founder of the liberal online news outlet The Young Turks.

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions reacts after results are announced for his candidacy in the Republican Party U.S. Senate primary in Mobile, Alabama, U.S. March 3, 2020. Below are some highlights from Tuesdays races:ALABAMASessions, who in 2016 was the first Senate Republican to endorse Trump before joining his administration, is seeking his partys nomination to challenge incumbent Doug Jones, the Senates most imperiled Democrat. The two are expected to face each other in a runoff on March 31. With 71% of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Democrat Christy Smith and Republican Mike Garcia appeared headed to the top two slots. In addition to Smith, who had 33% of the vote late Tuesday, Democrats seeking the seat included Cenk Uygur, founder of the liberal online news outlet The Young Turks.

Jeff Sessions talks with the media after voting in Alabama's primary election, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Mobile, Ala.WASHINGTON The Alabama Republican U.S. Senate primary is headed for a runoff, NBC News projected early Wednesday morning. Tuesday's primary contest pitted former Alabama senator and Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions against Rep. Bradley Byrne and political newcomer Tommy Tuberville, a former Auburn University football coach. Sessions and Tuberville will face each other in a runoff later this month. Prior to joining the Trump administration, Sessions represented Alabama in Congress for three decades, first in the House and then the Senate. For Sessions, ending his political career with a loss in a primary runoff would surely tarnish his legacy.

Below are some highlights from Tuesdays other races:ALABAMASessions, who in 2016 was the first Senate Republican to endorse Trump before joining the administration, is seeking his partys nomination to challenge incumbent Doug Jones, the Senates most imperiled Democrat. Senator Thom Tillis will face Democratic businessman and former state senator Cal Cunningham in the race for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina. The race became more controversial in recent weeks after reports emerged that Republicans had purchased television advertisements boosting another Democratic candidate, state lawmaker Erica Smith. Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar, who represents a district along the Mexican border, has drawn a challenge by Jessica Cisneros, a liberal immigration attorney from San Antonio, who has criticized him as too moderate. Mike Garcia, a businessman and former Navy pilot, entered the race before Hill resigned, hoping to oust her in November.

Democrat Jessica Cisneros, who is campaigning for a House seat, meets her opponent U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) for the first time during the campaign trail at the Citrus Parade in Mission, Texas, U.S. January 25, 2020. Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar, who represents a district along the Mexican border, has drawn a challenge by Jessica Cisneros, a liberal immigration attorney from San Antonio, who has criticized him as too moderate. On the Republican side, long-time U.S. House member Kay Granger is facing a challenger who contends she has insufficient conservative credentials. Former U.S. Representative Steve Knight, who previously held the seat, is also running in the Republican primary. The race became more controversial in recent weeks after reports emerged that Republicans had purchased television advertisements boosting another Democratic candidate, state lawmaker Erica Smith.

A woman casts her ballot during early voting for the California Democratic Primary in Los Angeles, California on March 2, 2020. Republican control of the Senate is also up in the air, with the GOP defending 23 Senate seats, while Democrats are defending only 12. An NBC/Marist poll released Sunday showed Cunningham winning support from 51% of likely Democratic primary voters, while Smith got 18%. The race is also noteworthy because a group with ties to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky paid $1 million for ads promoting Erica Smith. If Tuberville comes out victorious, it could also pose fresh challenges for the Republican Senate majority.

In November 2018, Trump demanded Sessions resignation. Should Sessions be forced into a runoff, the question is whether Trump will then weigh in and for which candidate. He plans to vote for Tuberville or state Rep. Albert Mooney, another candidate for the Senate nomination. When I left President Trumps Cabinet, did I write a tell-all book? One Tuberville campaign ad shows Trump expressing regret that he ever appointed Sessions as attorney general.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions officially announced Thursday that he is running for Senate in Alabama. If he prevails in the crowded Republican primary, Sessions would challenge Senator Doug Jones, who is considered the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate. He said it would have been "dishonorable" to "go on CNN and attack the president" after he was forced out by Mr. Trump. I'm f**ked," Mr. Trump told Sessions during an Oval Office meeting at the time, according to the Mueller report. When Sessions resigned from his Senate seat in 2017, former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley appointed Luther Strange, who was state attorney general at the time, to the seat.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions officially announced Thursday that he is running for Senate in Alabama. If he prevails in the crowded Republican primary, Sessions would challenge Senator Doug Jones, who is considered the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate. He said it would have been "dishonorable" to "go on CNN and attack the president" after he was forced out by Mr. Trump. I'm f**ked," Mr. Trump told Sessions during an Oval Office meeting at the time, according to the Mueller report. When Sessions resigned from his Senate seat in 2017, former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley appointed Luther Strange, who was state attorney general at the time, to the seat.

"When President Trump took on Washington, only one Senator out of a hundred had the courage to stand with him: me. I was the first to support President Trump," Sessions said in his statement. Republicans covet the Alabama Senate seat, the GOP's best chance to flip a Democratic-held state in 2020. Even if Trump does not back him, Sessions looks like he will get the support of at least one powerful Alabama Republican. In August 2018, he wrote: "If we had a real Attorney General, this Witch Hunt would never have been started!"

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to run for his old Senate seat in Alabama, joining a jammed field in one of 2020's most important races. Folks in Alabama know that if we're going to help President Trump change this country then we've got to stop recycling the same old politicians. As attorney general, Jeff Sessions had his chance to have President Trump's back and take on the establishment politicians and he failed. I will bring a new voice for Alabama to the Senate and I will always have President Trump's back." Byrne also released a statement, saying: "From the Mueller investigation to this impeachment sham, President Trump has been under constant attack.

Since then, protracted litigation over the drugs historically used in lethal injection executions prevented the government from continuing the practice, according to Justice Department officials. U.S. public support for the death penalty has declined since the 1990s, according to opinion polls, and all European Union nations have abolished it. There are also deep divisions on the U.S. Supreme Court over the death penalty and how it is implemented. REUTERS/Andrew CullenBut the conservative-majority court, with two justices appointed by Trump, has given little indication of being willing to rule the death penalty unconstitutional. Slideshow (2 Images)The Justice Department said all five executions will take place at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Senator Jeff Sessions was the first U.S. Senator to endorse Donald Trump. Sessions addressed the Republican National Convention Monday night, slamming Clinton's policies. Watch his full remarks.