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Special counsel Robert Mueller is reported to have his first indictment from a federal grand jury in Washington, and the target could be taken into custody as soon as Monday. (Associated Press/File)

Robert Mueller indicts Paul Manafort, Richard Gates

The special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the presidential election last year dropped two bombshells Monday, announcing a guilty plea from a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russian operatives, and unsealing charges of money laundering and tax evasion against two top Trump campaign figures.

October 30, 2017
FILE - In this Sunday, June 11, 2017 file photo, Equality March for Unity and Pride participants march past the White House in Washington. A federal court in Washington is barring President Donald Trump from changing the government's policy on military service by transgender people. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Judge halts Donald Trump’s transgender troop ban

A federal judge on Monday halted President Trump's move to oust transgender service members from the military, saying those troops qualify as a protected class and rejecting Mr. Trump's claim that his national security decisions shouldn't be questioned.

October 30, 2017
FILE - In this April 28, 2011 file photo, Jessica Colotl, an illegal immigrant and student at Kennesaw State University, speaks during a media interview at her lawyer's office in Atlanta. Federal immigration authorities have for the second time this year revoked the protection from deportation granted to Colotl. Federal government lawyers said in a court filing Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, that the government had re-evaluated Colotl's protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and decided not to renew it. (AP Photo/John Amis, file)

ACLU sues Trump administration

The ACLU sued Thursday to try to force the Trump administration to grant Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protections to an illegal immigrant woman, in a case that will test the boundaries of the Obama-era deportation amnesty and President Trump's bid to end it.

October 26, 2017
Then-IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 6, 2017, before the Senate Finance Committee. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Feds to pay ‘generous’ settlement to tea party groups for targeting

The government apologized Thursday for illegally targeting tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny and agreed to settlements with hundreds of organizations snared in the targeting, bringing to a close one of the more embarrassing episodes of the Obama administration.

October 26, 2017
Former IRS executive Lois Lerner fears threats if her testimony in the tea party-targeting scandal is made public. A judge agreed her testimony can be secret for now. (Associated Press)

Trump administration apologizes for IRS tea party targeting, faults Lois Lerner

The IRS admitted in court Wednesday that it wrongly targeted tea party and other conservative groups for intrusive scrutiny, placing specific blame on former senior executive Lois G. Lerner, and entered into a settlement designed to make sure that kind of political targeting never takes place again.

October 25, 2017
In this April 28, 2011, file photo, Jessica Colotl, an illegal immigrant and student at Kennesaw State University, speaks during a media interview at her lawyer's office in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis, file)

DHS nixes protections for Jessica Colotl; a target for deportation

The Trump administration has refused to renew the DACA status of a prominent illegal immigrant "Dreamer," saying she's now a priority for deportation in a case that has become a key test of the Obama-era deportation amnesty and the new president's handling of it.

October 25, 2017
Former IRS executive Lois G. Lerner. (Associated Press/File)

IRS email points to political affiliation in tea party targeting scandal

Lawyers think they have finally found the smoking gun in the IRS's tea party targeting scandal: an email from an IRS agent to her supervisors alerting them that the agency was, in fact, singling out some groups' applications for extreme scrutiny "primarily because of their political party affiliation."

October 25, 2017
President Donald Trump listens as he is introduced to speak with winners from the National Minority Enterprise Development Week Awards Program, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Supreme Court drops Trump travel ban case

The Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday dismissing Hawaii's challenge to President Trump's refugee policy, as encapsulated in his earlier "extreme vetting" executive order, saying the case is moot because the 120-day refugee pause has now expired.

October 24, 2017