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WASHINGTON (AP) — A law enforcement official says the Justice Department is preparing to announce charges against four defendants, including two Russian security services officers, in a mega data breach at Yahoo. The official says two of the defendants are Russian FSB officers and the other two are criminal hackers. One of the defendants has been taken into custody in Canada. The charges arise from a 2014 compromise of Yahoo user accounts. It would be the first case brought against Russian government officials.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Intelligence Committee say they have seen no evidence supporting President Donald Trump's claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him last year. Republican Devin Nunes (NOO'-nehs) and Democrat Adam Schiff say they're still waiting for evidence from the Justice Department backing up that claim. Schiff says he and Nunes are willing to take steps to compel the department to comply with their request if it refuses by the March 20 deadline they've given the Justice Department.
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump's original travel ban will hear a challenge to the new order by an immigrant rights group. U.S. District Judge James Robart will hear arguments today in the lawsuit brought by the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. The group says the new version of the travel ban discriminates against Muslims and raises the same legal issues as the original. Robart also is overseeing the legal challenge brought by Washington state. He also issued the order halting nationwide implementation of the first ban.
UNDATED (AP) — Airbnb, Lyft and Wikimedia are among 58 technology companies backing a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration's revised travel ban from taking effect. The tech companies signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court claiming the White House's planned travel restrictions "would inflict significant and irreparable harm on U.S. businesses and their employees." The filing supported a legal challenge from the state of Hawaii, which is trying to derail Trump's executive order affecting travelers from six Muslim-majority nations.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has refused to head off the imminent flow of oil in the disputed Dakota Access pipeline. The judge is denying a request by the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux to stop oil from flowing while they appeal his earlier decision allowing pipeline construction to finish. The judge says a "critical factor" is that the tribes' appeal is unlikely to succeed. They say the pipeline violates their religious rights because it's running under a lake they consider sacred. The judge says the argument was made too late and is of questionable merit.
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