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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 8 months ago
The White House on Tuesday instructed every federal agency to publish before the end of January at least three collections of "high value" government data on the Internet that never have been previously disclosed, an ambitious order to make the administration as transparent as... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 26 months ago
A House committee has issued a subpoena for FBI reports from interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in the CIA leak investigation. The subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is the latest move by Congress... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department alleged Thursday in a new terrorism case that a Texas man communicated with the fugitive al-Qaida cleric whose name surfaced in the shootings at Fort Hood.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's local jail population is declining for the first time since the federal government began keeping count, officials said Thursday, two weeks after reporting a drop in crime rates.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's local jail population has dropped for the first time since the federal government began keeping count nearly three decades ago.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether federal immigration law trumps Arizona's attempt to punish businesses that employ illegal immigrants.... More
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by Paul Davenport, Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
PHOENIX (AP) -- Justice Department officials told Arizona's attorney general and aides to the governor Friday that the federal government has serious reservations about the state's new immigration law.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Department officials told the Arizona attorney general and aides to the governor in face-to-face meetings Friday in Phoenix that the federal government has serious reservations about Arizona's new immigration law.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Office of Congressional Ethics says it is turning over evidence to the Justice Department that suggests some defense contractors thought their campaign donations were steering money for special-interest projects.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Police chiefs from around the country have told Attorney General Eric Holder that Arizona's new immigration law will divert law enforcement resources away from fighting crime.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even after death, John Murtha remains mired in controversy.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly released FBI documents detail the role of the late Rep. John Murtha in the Abscam scandal, the law enforcement sting that damaged the congressman's reputation early in his political career. The documents on the FBI's two-decade-old investigation state that "during the co... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is urging dismissal of Virginia's lawsuit against the new health care law, arguing that Congress acted well within its authority when it passed the legislation.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Crime in the United States dropped dramatically in 2009, bucking a historical trend that links rising crime rates to economic woes. Property crimes and violent offenses each declined about 5 percent, the FBI said Monday, citing reports from law enforcement coast to coast.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- James Cole, a Washington lawyer who spent 13 years at the Justice Department, will be the administration's nominee to become the next deputy attorney general, the No. 2 post at the department, President Barack Obama announced Friday.... More
