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Attorney General Names Team Reviewing Police Response to Uvalde School Shooting
The Justice Department on Wednesday is releasing new details in its review of the law enforcement response to the deadly mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
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White House: Colleyville Hostage-Taker Had Raised No Red Flags
The gunman who took four people hostage at a North Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death was checked against law enforcement databases before entering the U.S. but raised no red flags, the White House said.
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Fighting Texas Abortion Law Could Be Tough for Federal Gov't
Foes of the new Texas law that bans most abortions have been looking to the Democratic-run federal government to swoop in and knock down the most restrictive abortion law in effect in the country. But it’s nowhere near that simple.
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Wife of Infamous Drug Lord ‘El Chapo' Pleads Guilty to Federal U.S. Charges
The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in the U.S. and admitted that she helped her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.
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Designer Mossimo Giannulli Released to Home Confinement
Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli has been released from a California prison and is under home confinement following his imprisonment for his role in a college admissions bribery scheme, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Board to Begin Search for Permanent Capitol Police Chief
The board that oversees the U.S. Capitol Police is beginning a search for a permanent police chief, a person familiar with the matter said, as the fallout from the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol continues.
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Judge Says Wife of ‘El Chapo' to Stay in Jail
A federal judge has ordered the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to remain temporarily jailed after she was arrested and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plotting his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, appeared by video conference for an initial court appearance...
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AP Source: Police Suggest Keeping Capitol Fence for Months
U.S. Capitol Police officials told congressional leaders the razor-wire topped fencing around the Capitol should remain in place for several more months as law enforcement continues to track threats against lawmakers, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Trump Decries FBI Probe of Supporters Surrounding Biden Bus
President Donald Trump on Sunday suggested the FBI should stop investigating an incident in which his supporters were seen surrounding a Biden campaign bus in Texas, which led Democrats to cancel an event there.
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Feds to Seek Death Sentence for Boston Bomber Tsarnaev
The Justice Department will seek to reinstate a death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney General William Barr said Thursday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said the Justice Department would appeal the court’s ruling last month that tossed Tsarnaev’s death sentence and ordered a...
