A federal magistrate judge rejected the Justice Department’s initial attempt to bring charges against journalist Don Lemon for appearing alongside protesters who breached a Minnesota church over the weekend, a source told CNN. In Lemon’s case, Justice Department officials immediately, and publicly, asserted that he would face charges. The Department of Justice could always try again to bring charges against Lemon. The church protesters claimed in Lemon’s video that a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul, David Easterwood, appeared to be a top ICE official in the Twin Cities. The Justice Department has arrested at least three people involved in the protests.

As hemp-derived THC ban looms, some senators are working to prevent it ABC News’ Ashan Singh sits down with Sen. Amy Klobuchar to discuss her push to prevent the looming hemp-derived THC ban from going into effect.

Democrat Jerry Nadler defends the integrity of Jack Smith’s investigations Smith testified that his office developed "proof beyond any reasonable doubt" on President Trump’s alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election and the willful retention of classified documents.

Fork Food Lab member vendors package foods in the facility's shared kitchen space in August. Otherwise, we just might not have as many local food brands.”The impending foreclosure is not Fork Food Lab’s first existential crisis. Food Fork Lab first launched on Parris Street in Portland in 2016, and was then purchased in 2017 by a New York-based company called Pilotworks. In summer 2018, Pilotworks announced that it planned to close Fork Food Lab that fall, because it was not economically sustainable in that location. Fork Food Lab moved in 2023 to its current 42,000-square-foot space on Darling Avenue, paying $5.9 million for the property.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that a large bruise on his left hand came after he bumped it on furniture in Switzerland. The White House had made a similar statement earlier Thursday, saying Trump hit his hand on the signing table during a Board of Peace event in Davos, Switzerland, earlier in the day. “At the Board of Peace event today in Davos, President Trump hit his hand on the corner of the signing table, causing it to bruise,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. However, the bruising was noticeable roughly 10 minutes later after he was sitting at the table and signing several documents. Trump has long had bruising on his right hand, which CNN has reported predated his return to the White House.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs is proposing its biggest health care overhaul in three decades, a plan that would slash the number of regional networks from 18 to five and eliminate a top executive position. VA Secretary Doug Collins says the changes will cut red tape and get veterans faster access to care. The reorganization aims to reduce bureaucracy and improve communication across the nation’s largest health care system. But questions and concerns are emerging, including from the United Veterans Care Alliance. “All health care is local, right?

A magistrate judge rejected federal prosecutors’ bid to charge journalist Don Lemon related to the church protest, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the ongoing investigation. Lemon has said he has no affiliation to the organization that organized the protest and was there chronicling as a journalist. That’s called journalism.”WATCH | Protesters Disrupt Church Service in MInnesota Where ICE Official is a PastorIt wasn’t immediately clear what the Justice Department would do after the magistrate judge’s rejection. But authorities could gather more facts and return to a magistrate judge to again seek a criminal complaint or they could seek an indictment against Lemon before a grand jury.

Open this photo in gallery: Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of defrauding Theranos’ investors and is not eligible for release until December, 2031.Jeff Chiu/The Associated PressElizabeth Holmes, the founder of now-defunct blood testing startup Theranos, has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to release her from prison with nearly six years left before she is eligible for release. Theranos was once valued at U$9-billion, and Forbes magazine estimated Holmes’ net worth at US$4.5-billion in 2015. Holmes would still owe restitution if Trump released her from prison, but would not owe it if he pardoned her. She is housed at a minimum security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, and eligible for release in December, 2031. The White House declined to comment on Holmes’ request.

A federal magistrate judge declined to sign off on charges against Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor, in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church over the weekend, according to a person familiar with the matter. Abbe Lowell, an attorney representing Lemon, said Lemon engaged in constitutionally protected activity. “The magistrate’s reported actions confirm the nature of Don’s first amendment protected work this weekend in Minnesota as a reporter. It is “extremely rare” for a magistrate judge to reject charges, said Andrew Tessman, a former federal prosecutor. “I saw him the way he walked in that church, it was terrible,” Trump said of Lemon earlier this week.

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What’s one thing that could make ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s lethal shooting of innocent US citizen Renee Good even worse? If it were legally justified. A poll last week found that 35% of registered voters, and 77% of Republican party supporters, think the shooting was legally justified. After Renee Good was shot, ICE agents made no efforts to see to her medical needs. ICE agents stop people on the street and ask them where they were born and to prove they are citizens.

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Here’s what to know about the board and who is, and isn’t, joining. Trump had initially floated the Board of Peace as part of a second phase of the US-brokered 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan in September. The Board of Peace will sit above a “founding Executive Board” that includes Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff and former British prime minister Tony Blair. There was no Israeli representative on the stage for the Board of Peace ceremony, although Israeli President Isaac Herzog was in Davos. The UN’s top humanitarian official and emergency relief coordinator, Tom Fletcher, told CNN that Trump’s Board of Peace will not replace his organization.