The New York attorney general sued the Donald J. Trump Foundation on Thursday, claiming it acted as the president’s personal piggy bank. Attorney General Barbara Underwood, a Democrat, demanded the foundation pay $2.8 million in restitution and dissolve. Her predecessor, who started investigating the foundation in 2016, already ordered it to stop fundraising in New York. The president’s foundation acted as “little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr.

Domestic and gang violence are worldwide social problems and do not qualify as justification for an asylum claim, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday. Asylum should be granted for government oppression, not crimes that every country struggles to police, Sessions said. His decision overrules a Justice Department immigration appeals court that granted asylum to a woman from El Salvador who fled her abusive husband. “No country provides its citizens with complete security from private criminal activity, and perfect protection is not required,” Sessions wrote.

President Donald Trump is on a roll pardoning high profile individuals recently, including conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, former vice presidential aide Scooter Libby, former sheriff Joe Arpaio, and Alice Marie Johnson, a woman for whom reality TV star Kim Kardashian West advocated.

The Obama administration tried to work around U.S. sanctions on Iran to enhance financial benefits to the country after the 2015 nuclear deal, a Senate investigative committee said Wednesday. The White House said numerous times following the deal that it did not intend to allow Iran access to the U.S. financial system, but the report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said otherwise. In February 2016, the Treasury Department issued a license to allow Iran to convert Omani currency to U.S. dollars and then euros.

Only 13 states have held primaries so far this year, with three dozen left to go. News outlets have called 2018 the “Year of the Woman” due to the number of female candidates setting historical precedents in their races. Republicans, meanwhile, warned a “Blue Wave” might lead to Democrats sweeping control of the U.S.

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on Tuesday announced his resignation 17 months into his scandal-tainted tenure. A St. Louis grand jury indicted Greitens, a Republican, in February with felony invasion of privacy over a photo of a woman with whom he was having an alleged affair. That charge was dismissed, but in April the St. Louis prosecutor charged Greitens with another felony related to the use of a charity donor list in campaign fundraising.

Republicans killed a GOP-backed farm bill last week, a political move described as “pretty dramatic,” even by today’s divisive standards. But the disgruntled Republicans who brought down the 2018 Farm Bill weren’t worried about milk prices or work requirements—they were trying to take a stand on immigration and may get their wish next month.