An FBI operation has located 37 missing children and 84 minors who were victims of child sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation offenses, the Department of Justice announced Monday.
Driving the news: The FBI worked with state and local partners to track down the victims during a nationwide enforcement campaign, dubbed "Operation Cross Country," that targeted child sex and human trafficking.
Religious schools are not required to follow new Title IX rules on sexual orientation and gender identity in order to receive federal meal funding, the United States Department of Agriculture announced on Friday.
The big picture: The USDA announced in May that it would interpret Title IX — which prevents discrimination based on sex at educational institutions — to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Department of Justice said Monday in a court filing that it opposes requests to unseal the affidavit used to obtain a federal judge's permission to search former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
Driving the news: In a court filing, prosecutors said releasing the affidavit can "harm the government's ongoing criminal investigation."
House Republicans on Monday continued their steady stream of demands for information from the Justice Department and FBI in the wake of the search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence last week.
Why it matters: The deluge of letters and preservation requests signals that scrutinizing the conduct of the DOJ and FBI will be a top investigative priority for Republicans if they retake control of Congress next year.
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested and charged with threatening the FBI after the agency's Mar-a-Lago search, allegedly posting on the right-wing social media platform Gab that all FBI employees deserve to die.
Why it matters: The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have warned that threats against law enforcement officials have spiked since the FBI retrieved classified material from former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
A Superior Court judge in Fulton County has denied advocates' request to temporarily halt the implementation of the state's six-week abortion ban pending a state-level lawsuit.
Driving the news: In a Monday ruling, Judge Robert McBurney said he was "making no finding on the merits of this important litigation" and that the constitutionality of the law "remains to be answered." But he said the law would remain in effect in the meantime.
A group of journalists and lawyers, including attorneys who'd previously represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, filed a lawsuit against the CIA and former director Mike Pompeo alleging that the agency spied on them when they visited Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London between January 2017 and Mar. 2018.
Why it matters: The suit argues the agency violated their Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure.
Former national security adviser John Bolton told the New York Times that former President Trump, whom he served under for over 17 months, is "almost certainly" lying about why he had classified material at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Why it matters: After a search warrant unsealed Friday revealed FBI agents recovered classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, Trump and his team claimed he had a "standing order" dictating that documents taken from the Oval Office to his residence were "deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them."
Former President Trump's onetime personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been informed he is officially a target of an investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election being conducted by an Atlanta prosecutor, the New York Times reports.
Why it matters: Giuliani becomes the highest-profile figure to be publicly revealed as a target of the investigation as well as the closest figure to Trump.
Former President Trump said Monday that the "temperature has to be brought down" amid a surge in threats to federal law enforcement after the search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
But, but, but: Trump also reiterated his attacks on the FBI over the investigation, saying that Americans are "not going to stand for another scam."
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) must comply with a subpoena and testify before an Atlanta special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Driving the news: Judge Leigh Martin May wrote in a Monday ruling that she found Graham's arguments "unpersuasive," including that he should be shielded from inquiry about 2020 calls to Georgia election officials because he was operating in his capacity as a legislator.
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban a year ago sparked a new crisis for the Afghan people and a sobering reality check about what two decades of western intervention couldn't accomplish. It also coincided with a political drop for President Biden.
Why it matters: The economy, not foreign policy, is the biggest driver of presidential approval ratings in the U.S., pollsters and political scientists say. But a year later, it's impossible to deny that aspects of the Afghanistan exit affected Americans' views of Biden's ability to deliver on his promises.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are warning of a surge in threats to federal law enforcement after the search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
Driving the news: The federal agencies confirmed to several outlets on Sunday that they issued an unclassified joint intelligence bulletin two days earlier about the threats.
Another U.S. congressional delegation met with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei Monday, AP reports — less than two weeks after House Nancy Pelosi's visit there ratcheted up tensions with China's government.
Driving the news: Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is leading a five-member delegation to the self-governing island as part of a larger trip to the Indo-Pacific region, according to a statement from the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto U.S. embassy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday any Russian soldier who shoots at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station or fires from it will become a "special target" for Ukrainian forces.
Driving the news: Days of heavy shelling in the area around Europe's largest nuclear power station intensified Sunday — as Russian and Ukrainian officials continue to blame each other for the strikes that have forced hundreds of civilians to flee in the past week.
Former President Trump on Sunday called on the FBI to return seized documents that are allegedly protected by attorney-client and executive privileges.
The big picture: The FBI searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago home on Monday, recovering 11 sets of classified documents.
