Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled Thursday to give her highly anticipated deposition in the House Oversight Committee's probe into Jeffrey Epstein, followed by former President Bill Clinton on Friday.

The depositions, which will take place in New York, come after a contentious negotiation between the Clintons’ attorneys and House Republicans, led by Oversight Committee Chair James Comer who pushed for in-person, recorded depositions rather than written testimony or declarations. 

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that prison contractors cannot immediately appeal a trial court's decision, despite several claims to federal immunity.

The case, Geo Group Inc. v. Menocal, focused on a prison in Colorado that contracted with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. An individual detained at the prison sued over policies that required him to complete labor while detained without little or no pay.

The Justice Department announced Wednesday that a former United States Air Force pilot has been arrested and charged with providing and conspiring to provide defense services to Chinese military pilots without authorization.

Gerald Eddie Brown Jr., who is 65-years-old, was arrested in Indiana Wednesday after he allegedly knowingly conspired with foreign nationals and U.S. persons to provide combat aircraft training to pilots in the Chinese Air Force.

The FBI obtained phone records for its now-director Kash Patel during the Biden administration in 2022, while he was a private citizen, two sources confirmed to Just The News on Wednesday.

The subpoena for the phone records were issued as part of an investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. 

The Treasury Department hit Iran with more sanctions Wednesday, this time targeting 30 individuals, entities and vessels enabling illicit Iranian petroleum sales and its production of ballistic missiles and advanced conventional weapons (ACW).

West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is leading a group of 21 state AGs asking the United States Supreme Court to reverse a decision that upheld Biden-era Department of Energy efficiency standards that would eliminate many natural gas appliances from the market and households.

Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that he will be working with the Justice and Treasury Departments on the "war on fraud," which President Donald Trump announced during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. 

Trump said he is appointing Vance to lead his administration's nationwide response to public welfare fraud, highlighting recent high-profile revelations of large-scale public fraud linked to the Somali expat community in Minneapolis.

Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., on Wednesday introduced the Dalilah Law to bar states from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

The bill's introduction comes the day after President Trump called on Congress during the State of the Union to pass the legislation, according to Banks' office.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a string of endorsements in Indiana state legislative races, backing primary challengers to the Republican legislators who opposed his push to redraw the state's congressional maps in time for the midterms.

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is seeking direct control over the federal courthouses across the nation so it may tend to necessary repairs that it says risk the operations of the judiciary.

The executive branch is currently responsible for maintaining federal courthouses, though Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr., the director of the Administrative Office, informed Vice President JD Vance that they collectively needed more than $8 billion in repairs. Conrad wrote to Vance and members of both parties in Congress seeking legislation that would permit the judiciary to maintain the buildings on its own.

A federal judge has ruled the Justice Department cannot search a Washington Post reporter's seized devices.

The decision was in a filing Tuesday by U.S. Magistrate Judge William Porter, in which her wrote specifically that the agency could not “open, access, review, or otherwise examine any of” reporter Hannah Natanson’s seized data, according to The Hill news outlet.

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