Author: Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY

Alvin Bragg oversees an investigation into a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have an affair with Trump.

The Secret Service has participated in meetings as recently as Monday to discuss security preparations in the event charges are filed against Trump.

The filing comes as former president Trump battles criminal investigations on multiple fronts, including a Manhattan district attorney’s probe.

The numbers underscore a tension in the system in which gun dealers can sell weapons if a background check isn’t completed within three business days.

Garland traveled to Lviv, Ukraine, at the invitation of the Ukrainian prosecutor general, Justice Department officials said.

Attorney General Merrick Garland, in his first appearance before Congress this year, is also expected to face questions on special counsel probes.

Sensitive law enforcement information put at potential risk

Public remarks by grand jury foreperson Emily Kohrs pierced a veil of secrecy that traditionally guards investigations such as the one into Trump.

Summons comes after special counsel issued subpoena for former VP Pence

The investigation started when Trump urged Georgia’s top election official to “find 11,780 votes” to tilt the 2020 statewide election in his favor.