NO. 3 AT DOJ STEPS DOWN
The Justice Department’s No. 3 official is planning to step down at a time of turmoil in the agency to take the top legal job at Walmart.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has been criticized by President Donald Trump over the Russia investigation, oversees special counsel Robert Muller’s work. If Rosenstein is fired or quits, oversight would have fallen to Brand. Now that job would fall to Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
Flu season now as bad as 2009 swine flu.
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A government report out Friday shows 1 of every 13 visits to the doctor last week was for fever, cough and other symptoms of the flu. That ties the highest level seen in the U.S. during swine flu in 2009.
And it surpasses every winter flu season since 2003.
Autopsy offers no clues in Vegas shooting.
The much anticipated autopsy report on Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock did nothing to help explain why he carried out the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history — his body didn’t hold diseases or drugs or other substances that could have caused aggressive behavior.
The report — released Friday in response to a lawsuit by The Associated Press and the Las Vegas Review-Journal — showed gunman Stephen Paddock had anti-anxiety drugs in his system but was not under the influence of them.
Democrats introduce bills to block parade.
Democrats in each chamber of Congress are pushing legislation to prevent President Donald Trump’s proposed military parade.
Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois and Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland introduced measures to make it difficult for the show to go on.
Judge Trump accused of bias questions wall plans.
DIEGO» The SAN federal judge whom President Donald Trump characterized during his campaign as “a Mexican” and therefore biased against him said he would announce a ruling next week that could determine whether the government can proceed with its expedited plans to build a border wall.
District Judge Gonzalo Curiel is presiding over a lawsuit filed by advocacy groups and the state of California challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s plans to bypass standard environmental-impact studies and rapidly expand barriers along the Mexican border.
Mexico nabs top cartel boss.
Mexican authorities have arrested the alleged leader of the Zetas drug cartel — long one of the country’s most powerful and notoriously brutal criminal groups.
Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, who is accused of overseeing an organization that traffics thousands of pounds of cocaine and methamphetamine to the United States each year, was nabbed Thursday while entering a hotel in a fashionable neighborhood in Mexico City, authorities said Friday.