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(Headline USA) The Justice Department explored whether it could pursue either criminal or civil rights charges against city officials in Portland, Oregon after clashes erupted there night after night between law enforcement and rioters, a department spokesperson said Thursday. The revelation that federal officials researched whether they could levy criminal or...

(Headline USA) A week after a three-judge panel blocked an order from President Donald Trump seeking to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to determine how many congressional seats each state gets, the Trump administration on Wednesday gave notice it intends to appeal. It wasn't immediately clear...

(Headline USA) Attorney General William Barr took aim at his own Justice Department on Wednesday night, criticizing prosecutors for behaving as “headhunters" in their pursuit of prominent targets and for using the weight of the criminal justice system to launch what he said were “ill-conceived” political probes. The comments at a...

(Headline USA) Joe Biden is resisting calls from President Donald Trump and even some fellow Democrats to release his list of potential Supreme Court picks seven months after he pledged to name the first black female justice. Some on the left suggest that outlining potential picks would help Biden build enthusiasm...

(Headline USA) In a private call with federal prosecutors across the country, Attorney General William Barr’s message was clear: Aggressively go after violent rioters. Barr pushed his U.S. attorneys to bring federal charges whenever they could, keeping a grip on cases even if a defendant could be tried instead in state...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump parachuted into the coronavirus aid debate Wednesday, upbraiding his Republican allies for proposing too small of a relief package and encouraging both parties in Congress to go for a bigger one that would include his priority of $1,200 stimulus checks for most Americans. But his top...

(Headline USA) A Trump health appointee is taking a leave of absence after allegations of political interference in the federal coronavirus response, followed by a personal video that warned of election violence. Michael Caputo has decided to take 60 days “to focus on his health and the well-being of his family,”...

(Headline USA) After weeks of back-and-forth inter-party wrangling within the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Republicans voted 8-6 to approve subpoenas for several high-profile figures involved in Obama-era scandals. The vote authorizes subpoenas of seven new individuals, including former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Justice Department official...

The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into whether former national security adviser John Bolton illegally released classified information in his recent memoir. The DOJ convened a grand jury last week and subpoenaed Bolton’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, for records related to the writing of the tell-all, The Room...

The owner of the Los Angeles Angels said on Monday that it is “very necessary” to reelect President Donald Trump. “We all know where we’ve been,” Arte Moreno, a Vietnam veteran and a fourth-generation Mexican American, said a recent Latinos for Trump event in Phoenix, according to the Arizona Republic. "It's...

Four California parents sued Gov. Gavin Newsom and other high-ranking officials for keeping schools closed, arguing that it violates the constitutional right of their children to education. The Freedom Foundation filed the lawsuit Shasta County Superior Court on behalf of the parents and children, according to a press release. Attorneys said...

(Headline USA) Kenosha's fire chief says damage from the riots over the police shooting of Jacob Blake has now topped $11 million. Fire Chief Charles Leipzig told the Police and Fire Commission Tuesday that the record fire loss came in the days following the Aug. 23 shooting of Blake, a 29-year-old...