Legal advice guided brutal interrogations
ACLU slams decision not to pursue criminal charges
DATE: Dec 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Eric Tucker
U.S. unveils federal law enforcement profiling ban
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration issued guidelines Monday that ban federal law enforcement from profiling on the basis of religion, national origin and other characteristics, protocols ...
DATE: Dec 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Ebola screening measures rest on federal law
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s plans to screen certain airline passengers for exposure to Ebola are based on the Constitution and long-established legal authority that would almost ...
DATE: Oct 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. prison population down
Attorney general credits shift in federal sentencing rules
DATE: Sep 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Republicans demanding new probe of IRS actions
Justice Department is investigating missing emails, too
DATE: Jul 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Citigroup to pay $7 billion in subprime mortgages probe
$2.5B to be provided for citizen relief
DATE: Jul 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Judge: Libyan militant to remain in U.S. custody
WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Wednesday directed a Libyan militant charged in the 2012 Benghazi attacks to remain in U.S. custody after his own lawyer conceded that he had no reasonable ch...
DATE: Jul 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Benghazi case unfolds against political backdrop
What protections should suspected terrorists receive?
DATE: Jun 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
GPS tracking case leaves unsettled questions
WASHINGTON – Judges around the country are grappling with the ripple effects of a 2-year-old Supreme Court ruling on GPS tracking, reaching conflicting conclusions on the case’s meaning and ...
DATE: Jun 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Cyber-spying on companies raise U.S., China tension
Both countries deny it spies on the other
DATE: May 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. eases criteria for seeking clemency
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department is encouraging nonviolent federal inmates who have behaved in prison, have no significant criminal history and have already served more than 10 years behi...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Tax fraud becoming expensive problem
WASHINGTON – An Internet connection and a bunch of stolen identities are all it takes for crooks to collect billions of dollars in bogus federal tax refunds. And the scam is proving too perv...
DATE: Apr 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
