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Melanie Schmitz
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Editor, ABC News/GMA
Just here for the zipline
"...The moves come following months of turmoil in the Washington, D.C., U.S. attorney's office where multiple career prosecutors faced removals or demotions related to their involvement in prosecuting the more than 1,500 [Jan. 6] defendants."

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DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said 'mob' of 'rioters' carried out Jan. 6 attack
Two federal prosecutors have been told they will be put on leave after filing a brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021, attackers a "mob of rioters," sources say.
abcnews.go.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"In their sentencing memorandum, Valdivia and White used only two sentences to detail Taranto's involvement in the Jan. 6 attack."
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We just published a story about her retirement last month and her Aug. message to students, when she said she was unable to celebrate her birthday with them due to a "bad summer cold and other health issues"

Sending condolences to everyone who loved her.

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Beloved March Madness icon Sister Jean retires at 106
Sister Jean, the beloved March Madness icon and campus minister at Loyola University Chicago, is retiring at 106.
www.goodmorningamerica.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
At this point I think I need to just watch it, the lore has been absorbed already
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM