Trump names Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top DC federal prosecutor

Donald Trump said on Thursday he would name Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host and former local prosecutor, to be the interim US attorney for the District of Columbia after a key Republican senator said he would not support the candidate initially selected for the job. Pirro, who spent more than a decade as district attorney of Westchester county, New York, is a diehard Trump supporter and supporter of his baseless claim that the 2020 election was...