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Former President Donald Trump’s criminal indictment by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office is both troubling and historic. Former President Donald Trump’s indictment in New York is historic: never before has a former president been indicted for an alleged crime. The closest would have been former President Richard Nixon, who was on the cusp of being indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts for his role in the 1970s Watergate Scandal . His resignation and pardon by President Gerald Ford spared both Nixon and the nation from enduring a potential criminal federal presidential trial. Now Trump’s indictment by a grand jury in Manhattan on 34 felonies pertaining to an alleged scheme to catch and kill disparaging stories ahead of the 2016 election has opened up many questions including the role and scope of Secret Service protection, including whether it would extend to him if he were convicted and incarcerated. Trump has entered a not guilty plea and he and his legal tea...

RFK Jr. is again asking for a Secret Service detail after an armed man accused of impersonating a police officer showed up at a campaign event last week. Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is again calling for a U.S. Secret Service protective detail to be assigned to him following an incident at a campaign event last week involving an armed man who now stands accused of impersonating a police officer. Since then, Kennedy's campaign has highlighted his family's history of assassination and the recent security scare as examples of the increased threat environment he faces amid his campaign to defeat President Joe Biden. "​​Although it is a well-known historical fact, apparently, in your case, it bears repeating: Mr. Kennedy's uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. Mr. Kennedy's father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated while a presidential candidate," Kennedy's campaign manager Dennis Kucinich said earlier thi...

A federal judge ruled -- again -- that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, is illegal, but he refrained from removing people from it A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday ruled -- again -- that the federal government's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is il legal , but he refrained from taking action to remove protection s for the hundreds of thousands of young immigrants shielded under DACA. The program, which began in 2012 under the Obama administration, currently covers around 600,000 young adults, commonly referred to as "Dreamers," who were il legal ly brought to the U.S. as children. Under the program, those people have been protected from deportation and granted work authorization for the past 11 years. U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen, who issued the latest ruling, previously found DACA unlawful in 2021, leading to a protracted appeals process. "The Court, as it did before, hereby stays the effective date of the vac...