Aides to Gov. Gavin Newsom of California say several people associated with the couple have been contacted by federal agents in the past week. He criticized the move as politically motivated.
In a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and national parks officials, several Democrats and a Senate independent said that members of the administration could face fines and even criminal prosecution.
The health secretary is trying to restart the work of a panel that advises the government on vaccines, after a judge froze its decisions and prevented it from meeting.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a House hearing in April. Last June, he fired all 17 members of a vaccine advisory committee and named new ones, many of whom share his skepticism of vaccines.
Senior White House officials have argued that President Trump has the authority to suspend habeas corpus, but legal experts say that can be done only by Congress.
The men were convicted of conspiring to set fire to properties and a car linked to the prime minister after one of them was recruited on a Russian-language Telegram account.
The men were convicted of conspiring to set fire to properties and a car linked to the prime minister after one of them was recruited on a Russian-language Telegram account.
While the president says the agreement with Iran would open the Strait of Hormuz and provide economic relief, the country’s nuclear program is still a subject for negotiation.
While the president says the agreement with Iran would open the Strait of Hormuz and provide economic relief, the country’s nuclear program is still a subject for negotiation.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government planned to bar children under 16 from social media, following similar efforts in Australia and elsewhere.
President Trump insisted on Sunday that if Iran failed to reach a final nuclear accord with the United States, he could restart military attacks on Tehran.
President Trump has long been at odds with European leaders over trade, Ukraine and NATO, but he has lashed out in recent weeks over their refusal to support the U.S. war with Iran.
Representative Barry Moore, an early backer of the president during his first campaign, faces Jared Hudson, a former Navy SEAL tapping into the excitement for outsiders.
The Upper Colorado River on the Grand Canyon last month. About 40 million people and 5.5 million acres of cropland depend on the Colorado for drinking water and irrigation.
Secret memos show that the White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants.
Tuesday’s runoff for a slot on the Alabama Public Service Commission has a familiar ring to it, with talk of data centers and electricity costs. But in a southern twist, solar power has joined the list of villains.
A bitterly fought Democratic primary in New York’s Hudson Valley will determine who takes on Representative Mike Lawler, one of the more vulnerable Republicans this cycle.
PORTOFERRAIO – Traghetti elettrici e sostenibilità sono questi i temi al centro dell’evento “Il Corridoio Blu, I traghetti full-electric per un clima e un turismo più sostenibili“, in programma oggi a Portoferraio, dove verrà presentata un’analisi tecnica ed economica sul potenziale di elettrificazione dei traghetti in Italia.Il confronto vede la presenza di istituzioni, mondo accademico e operatori del settore per delineare le prospettive della navigazione sostenibile nel Paese.
L’iniziativa si svolge presso la sala Nervi (Ex Gattaia), Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 6, Portoferraio.
10.00 – 10.10 Apertura e saluti istituzionali
Tiziano Nocentini
Sindaco di Portoferraio
10.10 – 10.30 Presentazione T&E Analisi tecnica ed economica del potenziale di elettrificazione dei traghetti in Italia
Carlo Tritto, Sustainable Fuels Manager, T&E Italia
10.30 – 11.30 Panel 1 Quali opportunità per il sistema Paese: le prospettive delle istituzioni?
Intervengono:
Patrizia Scarchilli, Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti – Direzione Generale per il Mare, il Trasporto Marittimo e per Vie d’Acqua Interne
Davide Gariglio, Presidente Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale
David Barontini, Assessore all’Ambiente della Regione Toscana
Andrea Cocco, Autorità di Regolazione dei Trasporti
11.30 – 12.15 Panel 2 : Come passare dalle parole all’azione?
Guido Befani Università di Teramo Prospettive regolatorie, normative e applicative della portualità sostenibile*
Sara Salamone (RSE S.p.A.) e Marco Gallo (Università di Genova)
Elettrificazione dei traghetti: una rotta già tracciata. Sfide, tecnologie e soluzioni*
John Scanu, Econboard
AURORA: un progetto e una realizzazione pilota
12.45 – 13.15
Panel 3 Quali opportunità per l’impresa?
Intervengono:
Damiano Landi, TERNA S.p.A.
Edoardo D’Andrea, Confitarma
14.30 – 15.30
Panel 4 I benefici dell’elettrificazione dei traghetti sul territorio e per l’essere umano
Introduce e modera, Adolfo Santoro, Psichiatra e Psicoterapeuta
Intervengono:
Carla Ancona Epidemiologa, Servizio Sanitario del Lazio
L’ambiente nei porti italiani: i risultati del progetto SALPIAM*
Paolo Marzorati, Direttore Ospedale di Portoferraio
Transizione marittima verde e salute pubblica*
Matteo Arcenni, Presidente Parco Nazionale Arcipelago Toscano
15.30 – 16.00 Chiusura dei lavori
Rossana Bacci, Assessore all’Ambiente del Comune di Piombino
Andrea Boraschi, Direttore T&E Italia
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government planned to bar children under 16 from social media, following similar efforts in Australia and elsewhere.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government planned to bar children under 16 from social media, following similar efforts in Australia and elsewhere.
Shasta County voters had approved a ballot measure that would have heavily restricted voting by mail and imposed photo ID requirements. State officials said the new rules were illegal.
President Trump insisted on Sunday that if Iran failed to reach a final nuclear accord with the United States, he would restart military attacks on Tehran.
Kevin O’Leary of “Shark Tank” fame hopes to build a sprawling data center on the parched shores of the Great Salt Lake. It has become a burning issue in Utah’s looming primaries.
Darializa Avila Chevalier won the backing of Mayor Zohran Mamdani in her bid to unseat Representative Adriano Espaillat. Then her social media history took center stage.
Jean Ziegler in 2009. A writer, sociologist and politician, he was called Switzerland’s “national troublemaker” by Le Monde in 1997 for his critiques of Swiss society, particularly the banking system.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March. At the start of the recent war, he had said that its objective was “to remove the existential threats” to Israel.
Group of 7 meetings once embodied the effort to sustain the global diplomatic order. This year’s gathering, starting on Monday, symbolizes its fragmentation.
After Republicans redrew her district to favor their party, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz decided to run in a nearby historically Black district, pitting her against some Black Democrats in the state.
The F.B.I. director, following a strategy from President Trump, has filed six defamation lawsuits against news media companies and commentators in nearly seven years.
Mr. Trump backed Mr. Collins over Derek Dooley, a former football coach supported by Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican whose relationship with the president is strained.
Group of 7 meetings once embodied the effort to sustain the global diplomatic order. This year’s gathering, starting on Monday, symbolizes its fragmentation.
Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan’s defense minister, and his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, at a naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, in March. The countries have been building up their militaries.
Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan’s defense minister, and his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, at a naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, in March. The countries have been building up their militaries.
James M. McDonald, a veteran former federal prosecutor and regulator, has more recently been part of President Trump’s legal team, appealing his criminal conviction.
James M. McDonald is a litigation partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, the law firm handling President Trump’s appeal of his criminal conviction in a Manhattan state court.
President Trump’s name was removed from the arts institution’s facade overnight on Saturday. Many questions remain, including whether or not it stays off.
The Kennedy Center certified on Saturday that President Trump’s name had been removed from the building, but did not give a clear answer on when the tarps would be removed.
One of the world’s richest countries is about to hold a referendum on a measure that would curb migration and most likely the economy. It is being sold in warm tones.
Campaign posters ahead of the population cap vote. President Trump’s face is on a no poster, with the slogan, “Now, of all times, a break with Europe?” The yes slogan shown is “Protect Switzerland.”
Il nuovo assetto geopolitico mondiale ha messo a nudo una serie di problematiche che sono state trascurate troppo a lungo. In pratica, quello che per anni abbiamo visto accadere nel software, ovvero l’entusiasmo per le nuove feature che andava a coprire la necessità di rendere sicuro il loro utilizzo, si è applicato anche in mille […]
Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia Shuran Huang/The New York Times/Redux
Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, a Republican from West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s.
The investigation examined potential criminal violations of the Clean Water Act by the multistate mining operations largely run by Justice’s son, Jay, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.
The criminal probe was a significant escalation in the yearslong effort to police serial pollution offenses by Virginia-based Southern Coal and dozens of affiliated mining operations controlled by the family. In the past decade, Southern Coal and other Justice corporations have racked up tens of thousands of allegedviolations of the Clean Water Act and have been sued repeatedly by state and federal prosecutors over their failure to properly follow environmental laws at their mining sites.
The investigation shuttered by the Trump administration was a joint effort by prosecutors and investigators with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Virginia to probe whether the incessant violations of antipollution laws had risen to the level of criminal behavior, people familiar with the matter said.
People familiar with the investigation told ProPublica that prosecutors believed they had a strong case. They initially had the blessing of Robert Tracci, President Donald Trump’s top official in the Western District of Virginia, to move forward.
But in recent months, as prosecutors battled the Justice companies in court over subpoenas for records, the Office of the Deputy Attorney General shut down the probe. At the time, Todd Blanche still headed the office, before assuming the role of acting attorney general in April.
“They were told ‘pencils down,’” a person familiar with the investigation said.
That prosecutors were even conducting a criminal investigation is noteworthy, people said, because the DOJ only charges a dozen or so criminal Clean Water Act cases each year. It is rare for top DOJ officials to derail a criminal investigation initiated by career officials at such an early stage, people familiar with the case said.
“I’ve never heard of that happening before,” said former federal prosecutor Rick Mountcastle, speaking generally about DOJ protocols. Mountcastle spent 24 years as a prosecutor in the Western District of Virginia. “There shouldn’t be some sort of untouchables list of people who are immune from enforcement.”
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Steven Ruby, an attorney for the Justice companies, said they became aware of the criminal investigation earlier this year.
“Ultimately the finding of the inquiry by the government was that there wasn’t any evidence to pursue criminal charges,” Ruby said. “There’s never been any intentional wrongdoing by the companies.”
While objecting to the subpoenas in court, the company simultaneously convinced the DOJ to drop the case, he said.
“The Justice companies — because Sen. Justice has been governor and because he’s now a senator — are singled out and put under a microscope, and there’s news coverage of violations and consent decrees and compliance actions,” Ruby said. “But the fact of the matter is that those kinds of issues exist throughout the industry.”
Current and former government officials familiar with the companies’ environmental record called them routine bad actors.
Spokespeople for the EPA and the Western District of Virginia referred questions to the DOJ. Justice’s senate office did not respond to questions.
“There is no case to be made here for a criminal investigation,” Emily Covington, a DOJ spokeswoman, said in an email. “Any career prosecutor who would paint a criminal case as strong is simply a deep state prosecutor continuing to push the priorities of the Biden administration.”
The deputy attorney general’s office is routinely involved with reviewing cases, she added. The office determined that this case was not consistent with the Trump administration’s priorities, she continued, and it was more appropriate to resolve it through the less punitive civil process. “The bottom line is that this was a politically motivated prosecution for a case that can and should be resolved civilly,” she wrote.
The Justice family runs a sprawling coal mining enterprise that extends across the South. Estimates of its fortune fluctuate. Forbes tallied Jim Justice’s net worth to be as much as $1.9 billion until 2021; more recently, it declared him “broke” and facing $1 billion in debt. But environmental groups have accused his companies of misrepresenting their assets to avoid paying environmental penalties.
Ruby said company finances seesaw because coal is a “boom and bust” industry.
Justice, who was first elected governor of West Virginia as a Democrat, announced he had become a Republican at a Trump rally in 2017. Trump backed Justice’s bid for Senate in 2023, amid a contested GOP primary. Justice went on to win the seat, helping Trump clinch a GOP majority in the Senate.
Coal mines often leach dangerous chemicals like arsenic into waterways and are required to strictly monitor pollution discharge and keep it under certain limits. The family’s companies have settled many accusations of environmental violations by agreeing to pay fines and invest in better pollution prevention without admitting or denying culpability.
In recent years, however, the company has repeatedly flouted regulators and the legal process. Jay Justice has been a no-show at court hearings involving Clean Water Act violations in the past, and in 2024 a judge in Alabama issued a civil contempt order against him for his repeated failure to respond to those lawsuits. Ruby, the Justice companies’ lawyer, attributed the violations in that case to surrounding facilities the family does not own. The case is now in mediation.
A number of recent legal proceedings have laid bare the extent to which the Justice companies may have knowingly violated environmental laws, a key threshold for bringing a criminal matter.
Such allegations surfaced in a 2023 civil case brought by the Justice companies’ former chief of environmental compliance Robert Fowler. In the suit, Fowler claimed that Jay Justice blocked him from spending the money necessary to comply with environmental laws, including making court-ordered payments and repairing equipment. As a result, according to emails disclosed in the lawsuit there were at times complaints of near-daily violations of permit water requirements.
In a resignation letter and in subsequent court filings, Fowler said he was concerned the circumstances exposed him to “potential civil and criminal liability.” Fowler declined to comment.
The Justice companies denied Fowler’s accusations. The Justice companies believe the government’s criminal investigation was based primarily on Fowler’s claims, which Ruby dismissed as the allegations of a “disgruntled” former employee.
Last month, a jury in Alabama found that the Justice companies had made false representations to Fowler about his role, but it did not award him the millions of dollars in damages he demanded in his lawsuit. The judge has yet to enter his final ruling.
In the DOJ’s aborted investigation of Southern Coal, prosecutors and federal agents had begun to gather evidence, scrutinizing testimony in the Justices’ various civil trials, and had approached former employees seeking information. Government attorneys also sent subpoenas seeking further documentation, said those familiar with the probe, a move that was opposed by the company’s lawyers.
People familiar with the case said Justice Department attorneys were ready to fight the Justices’ lawyers over the subpoenas.
But before they could move forward, Blanche’s office shut it down.
Collage by Mauricio Rodriguez Pons/ProPublica. Source images: Katie Campbell/ProPublica.
Kara Meredith can tell you the exact day her life turned upside down: Aug. 23, 2025.
She was at her home in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, caring for her 5-week-old son, when one of her daughters ran to tell her there was water all over the bathroom floor. Her husband, Mitch Meredith, wasn’t worried — until he saw the dark liquid bubbling up around the base of the bathtub. Mitch and his relatives worked all night trying to contain it. It was near dawn when his uncle said, “This is oil.”
The United States is the largest oil and gas producer in the world. All of that drilling produces hundreds of billions of gallons of toxic wastewater each year. For decades, energy companies have disposed of that briny fluid by shooting it back underground using high-pressure injection wells. But across Oklahoma, the fluid is spreading uncontrollably belowground, blasting out of old, unplugged wells, polluting land and contaminating drinking water.
In a new documentary from The Frontier and ProPublica, reporter Nick Bowlin investigates a scourge of oil field wastewater seeping into the lives of Oklahomans, about half of whom live within a mile of an oil and gas operation.
His reporting takes him to the headquarters of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the state agency tasked with regulating oil and gas. The agency told Bowlin that it is committed to “doing the right thing, holding operators accountable, protecting Oklahoma and its resources, and providing fair and balanced regulation.” But as Bowlin continues to dig, he discovers he is far from the first one to raise the alarm about what’s happening in Oklahoma.
We’ve reported on oil and gas pollution contaminating drinking water, killing cattle and damaging property. We need your help to show how this affects people across the state.
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Acumen Cyber has announced a strategic partnership with AttackIQ to help organizations continuously validate their cyber defenses against real-world threats and reduce exposure to modern attacks.
The partnership combines Acumen Cyber’s engineering-led security operations expertise with AttackIQ’s Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform. Together, the companies aim to help organizations identify exploitable attack paths, validate security controls, and prioritize remediation efforts based on actual risk rather than theoretical vulnerabilities.
Moving beyond traditional vulnerability management
As cybercriminals increasingly leverage artificial intelligence and automation, organizations are struggling to keep pace with the growing volume of vulnerabilities and security alerts.
According to Acumen Cyber and AttackIQ, traditional approaches centered on vulnerability counts, severity ratings, and periodic assessments are no longer enough. Security teams need continuous visibility into how attackers could move through their environments and whether existing controls are capable of stopping them.
The partnership is designed to help organizations continuously test defensive effectiveness, validate security investments, and focus resources on the attack paths that present the greatest risk.
Carl Wright, Chief Commercial Officer at AttackIQ, said many organizations are overwhelmed by security findings but still lack clarity about where they are truly vulnerable.
“Threat Debt changes the conversation from managing lists of vulnerabilities to understanding and reducing accumulated adversary opportunity,” Wright said.
Continuous validation becomes a priority
As part of the partnership, Acumen Cyber’s engineers will emulate real-world adversary techniques mapped to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK. This will allow organizations to test whether their preventive and detective controls can successfully stop modern attack methods.
The companies say the approach helps uncover where vulnerabilities, identity exposures, misconfigurations, and control gaps combine to create viable attack paths to critical assets.
Mark Robertson, CEO of Acumen Cyber, said organizations need to focus less on activity metrics and more on measurable security outcomes.
“Most organizations still operate security programs built around activity metrics instead of validated outcomes,” Robertson said. “The reality is that adversaries exploit paths, not isolated findings.”
He added that the partnership will enable customers to continuously identify attacker opportunities and systematically reduce what AttackIQ calls “Threat Debt” before those weaknesses can be exploited.
Measuring exposure through Threat Debt
A key component of the partnership is the AttackIQ Threat Debt Index, which provides organizations with a framework for measuring accumulated adversary opportunity across their environments.
The index is designed to track how attack paths change over time, identify where new exposure has emerged, and show where security controls are successfully reducing risk. This gives organizations a way to measure cyber resilience based on validated outcomes rather than simply reporting on security activities.
As organizations continue to face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, Acumen Cyber and AttackIQ believe continuous validation and threat-informed defense will play a growing role in helping security teams stay ahead of attackers.
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