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Walt Nauta, the only other person indicted along with former President Donald J. Trump, has been serving as his personal aide after previously working for him in the White House.A native of Guam, Mr. Nauta enlisted in the military at some point and was a military aide working as a White House valet while Mr. Trump was president.

The official deployment ceremony for a South Carolina Army National Guard brigade that includes Michael Haley, the husband of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, is set to take place Saturday in Charleston.The ceremony is scheduled to be held at The Citadel military college ahead of the brigade's deployment to Africa in support of the United States Africa Command.

The suspended FBI agent had allegedly been leaking sensitive information to far right propaganda group Project Veritas.Suspended FBI special agent Garret O'Boyle waits for the beginning of a hearing before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government of the House Judiciary Committee at Rayburn House Office Building on May 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong / Getty Images A key Republican witness in a recent House subcommittee hearing may have lied to Congress about his ties to far right propaganda group Project Veritas in a recent testimony dubiously accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of being biased against the right, potentially constituting a breach of federal law, Democrats are saying.

The Justice Department and Minneapolis officials have agreed to negotiate toward a deal on a court-enforced consent decree.A consent decree in this case, between the Department of Justice and a state or local governmental agency, such as a police department, is a court-approved agreement that creates and enforces a road map for changes and overhaul within the agency where the Justice Department has found evidence of abuse and misconduct.Typically, a federal judge, along with an independent monitor, is appointed to oversee the changes and enforce the agreement.

If you ever drank a glass of clean water, caught a freshwater fish, swam in a lake or even maybe avoided a flood, you have directly benefited from wetlands.But those benefits are drying up, thanks to a Supreme Court decision that has overturned five decades of wetland protections.The 1972 federal Clean Water Act (CWA) protects the physical, chemical and biological health of the nation's surface waters.

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay delivers a speech Monday at the group's headquarters in Paris to announce the United States' request to resume membership in the organization.Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. may soon rejoin UNESCO several years after exiting the body, in part because of what the Trump administration called a bias against Israel.

The United States will rejoin UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organization, in July, the agency announced on Monday, after years of turbulent relations that culminated in 2017 with a full withdrawal by the U.S. government.The move, which comes over a decade after the United States had cut off key funding to the agency, will give its budget a much-needed boost.

China has been operating military and intelligence facilities in Cuba since at least 2019 and is continuing to expand its intelligence gathering capabilities around the world, a Biden administration official and two other sources told CNN Saturday.The administration official said China conducted an upgrade of its intelligence collection facilities in Cuba in 2019 under the Trump administration and described the challenge as inherited.