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• Airline bomber set to be released from prison

  March 16, 2013 11:17 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - A man convicted of a 1982 terrorist attack aboard a Pan Am jetliner is days away from being released from federal prison. Mohammed Rashed has been in custody for more than two decades in connection with the bombing aboard Pan Am Flight 830. A Japanese teenager en... more »

• Jesse Jackson: Voting rights continue to be threatened

  March 3, 2013 12:36 PM

  SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson says current threats to voting rights make this year's Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Alabama more than a commemoration. The annual event taking place Sunday in Selma commemorates the beating of voting rights marchers on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965 as they began... more »

• Denver officers won't be charged in beating case

  February 9, 2013 1:48 PM

  DENVER (AP) - A 23-year-old man who was beaten by three Denver police officers after he questioned their authority to search the trunk of his car says the Justice Department has decided not to charge any of the officers with civil-rights violations stemming from the case. Alexander Landau tells The... more »

• Justice reaches settlement with Penguin on e-books

  December 18, 2012 6:22 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department says it has reached a settlement with one of the nation's largest book publishers over charges it conspired with other companies to raise prices for electronic books. Federal officials say the agreement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc., if approved by a court, would remove... more »

• Strategy, timing key to states' pot legalization

  December 2, 2012 1:27 PM

  SEATTLE (AP) - In the late-1980s heyday of the anti-drug "Just Say No" campaign, a man calling himself "Jerry" appeared on a Seattle talk radio show to criticize U.S. marijuana laws. An esteemed businessman, he hid his identity because he didn't want to offend customers who - like so many... more »

• Governor asks again for federal pot response

  November 14, 2012 7:55 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Colorado's governor has again asked for a federal response to the state's recent marijuana legalization vote. Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper said in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder that Colorado needs a response "as soon as possible" about how the Justice Department will respond to... more »

• Supreme Court begins new term Monday

  September 29, 2012 1:10 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - With health care reform in the rear-view mirror, the U.S. Supreme Court is about to embark on a term that could be just as important as the last one. One of the first cases the court will take up is the limited use of race to help... more »

• Tribes, government agree to $1 billion settlement

  April 11, 2012 7:51 PM

  YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - The federal government says it will pay more than $1 billion to settle a series of lawsuits brought by American Indian tribes over mismanagement of trust lands. The settlement announced jointly by the Justice Department and the Interior Department resolves claims brought by 41 tribes from... more »

• AG vows thorough review in Trayvon Martin case

  April 11, 2012 11:11 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department will take appropriate action in the Trayvon Martin case if it finds evidence that a federal criminal civil rights crime has been committed. The attorney general made the comment in an appearance Wednesday before a civil rights organization founded... more »

• Feds shut down major file-sharing website

  January 19, 2012 5:05 PM

  McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- One of the world's largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said. An indictment accuses Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films... more »

• White House concerned over online piracy bills, censorship

  January 14, 2012 11:56 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration says it would oppose pending legislation that would undermine "the dynamic, innovative global Internet." The White House says in a blog post Saturday that while online piracy by foreign websites presents a "serious problem," it is concerned with legislation that "reduces freedom of... more »

• Romney says Attorney General Holder should quit

  December 3, 2011 3:53 PM

  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is calling on President Barack Obama's attorney general to resign because of the flawed law enforcement initiative aimed at dismantling major arms trafficking networks on the Southwest border. Romney tells reporters after a rally in New Hampshire that Eric Holder... more »

• DOJ, 21 AGs support Secret Service agent

  September 30, 2011 8:59 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Federal and state officials are supporting two Secret Service agents being sued by a man who confronted then-Vice President Dick Cheney. In a document filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, the Justice Department and attorneys general from 21 states say allowing the agents to... more »

• Government sues to block AT&T deal

  August 31, 2011 12:09 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Department officials have filed suit to block AT&T's $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA. The government contends that the acquisition of the country's No. 4 wireless carrier by No. 2 AT&T would reduce competition and raise prices for tens of millions of consumers. more »

• Justice Dept.: 2 arrested in Seattle terror plot

  June 23, 2011 4:06 PM

  SEATTLE (AP) - The Justice Department says two men have been arrested in a plot to attack a military recruiting station in Seattle with machine guns and grenades. Seattle resident Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, also known as Joseph Anthony Davis, of Seattle, and Walli Mujahidh, also known as Frederick Domingue... more »

• 2 firms to pay for improper military foreclosures

  May 26, 2011 4:52 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Two mortgage lenders will pay more than $22 million combined to settle federal civil charges that they improperly foreclosed on 178 military personnel, some of whom were serving in the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. Subsidiaries of Bank of America Corp. and Morgan Stanley failed to obtain court... more »

• FBI backlog is over 3,200 forensic DNA cases

  August 9, 2010 12:46 PM

  The Justice Department's inspector general says the FBI laboratory has a backlog of more than 3,200 forensic DNA cases. The IG says such backlogs can delay legal proceedings and prevent the timely capture of criminals. The backlog has grown 130 percent in a single year to 276 cases... more »

• Colorado GOP head: Obama administration tried bribe

  June 3, 2010 12:53 PM

  The head of Colorado's Republican Party is accusing the Barack Obama administration of offering an illegal bribe to try to head off a primary challenge to incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. Dick Wadhams said Thursday that the administration broke the law when it tried to dissuade former House Speaker... more »

• Justice Dept. confirms criminal probe of mine explosion

  May 14, 2010 5:21 PM

  The Justice Department is investigating whether there was "willful criminal activity" by the company that operates the West Virginia mine where 29 workers died in an accident last month. The U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of West Virginia says in a letter that investigators are looking into the... more »

• House lawmakers asks Justice for Goldman Sachs investigation

  April 28, 2010 1:28 PM

  A group of 62 House lawmakers wants the Justice Department to launch a criminal investigation into Goldman Sachs. In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, the group alleges that "criminal fraud on a historic scale seems to have occurred." The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a... more »

• Feds to leave medical marijuana users alone

  October 19, 2009 6:46 PM

  The Obama administration has ordered federal prosecutors to stop pursuing medical marijuana users and sellers in states, like Colorado, that have legalized its use. The new Justice Department guidelines say the US Attorneys will no longer target medical marijuana sellers on federal drug charges and only prosecute those who abuse... more »