Garland's decision gives Weiss more powers than a typical US attorney and puts the US in uncharted territory, with three special counsels at the Justice Department currently probing the sitting president, his son and the former president.
US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, expected to plead guilty to two minor tax offences and avoid jail but after the deal with federal prosecutors derailed in a Delaware court. he pleaded 'not guilty.'
US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden told a federal court in Delaware on Wednesday that he intends to plead guilty to tax charges, CNN reported on Sunday.
US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden has reached a 'tentative agreement' with the federal prosecutors to plead guilty to two minor tax crimes and get the gun charge resolved, so that he remains out of jail
"Hunter Biden laptop exposes Biden family as criminals & according to pollsters would have made a 17-point difference in election result, we needed a lot less than that, it would have been in our favour because our country is going to hell," said Trump.
In a heated argument, US Congresswoman Lauren Borbert on Wednesday lambasted the former executives Vijaya Gadde, and Yoel Roth over conspiracy with the FBI and shadow banning her Twitter account.
Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's former chief legal officer, also testified that, looking back, Twitter should have immediately reinstated the New York Post's account after the company reversed its decision to block the Hunter Biden story.
Taking to Twitter Elon Musk announced a new update to the micro-blogging platform after the second instalment of the so-called "Twitter Files" revealed how the company build blacklists and actively limited the visibility of certain accounts.
Even though previous management denied reports of a shadow ban, Weiss said Twitter executives and employees used a powerful tool like "Visibility Filtering or VF" to block searches of individual users and to limit the scope of a particular tweet's discoverability.
This set of documents were mainly Twitter's internal communications to disclose links with political actors and with a focus on how the social network blocked stories related to Hunter Biden's laptop in the lead-up to the 2020 US Presidential election.
Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi, who began posting a series of tweets revealing the inner story about the decision behind the censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop story. "The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter