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President Trump and U.S. Attorney General William Barr announce the Trump administration's decision to back down from its push for a citizenship question in the White House Rose Garden in July.
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Email Trail On Citizenship Question Is Longer Than Trump Officials Said

Nov 27, 2019
The Justice Department told a court it has realized there are more internal documents that it inadvertently failed to disclose before lawsuits over the now-blocked census citizenship question ended.
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Politics
White House counsel Don McGahn in September. Lawyers for McGahn appeared in federal court on Thursday in a dispute over whether he will have to sit for questions from House investigators conducting the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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Judge Pushes Back On Trump Lawyers Trying To Block Possible Impeachment Witnesses

Oct 31, 2019
A federal judge in Washington was skeptical in the face of arguments that current and former Oval Office aides have "absolute immunity" from ever sitting for questions about interactions with Trump.
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Law
Accused of misappropriating billions of dollars, Jho Low has reached a settlement over U.S. claims related to more than $700 million in assets. But he also says he will continue to fight the charges. The Malaysian financier is seen here in 2014.
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U.S. Recovers More Than $700 Million From Malaysian Financier In Slush Fund Scandal

Oct 31, 2019
Assets forfeited by financier Jho Low range from the luxury Viceroy L'Ermitage hotel in Beverly Hills to a business jet. Millions of dollars in business holdings are also included.
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A year ago a shooter killed eight men and three women, and wounded seven others, at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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Some Tree Of Life Members Believe Death Penalty For Shooter At Odds With Jewish Faith

Oct 25, 2019
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the alleged Tree of Life synagogue shooter, but faith leaders and members of the Pittsburgh congregation are of many minds on whether it's the right path.
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Attorney General William Barr speaks at an event in Washington earlier this month. On Monday, he issued a proposed rule seeking to allow the federal government collect DNA samples from more than 740,000 immigrants every year.
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Justice Department Announces Plan To Collect DNA From Migrants Crossing The Border

Oct 21, 2019
Immigrant advocates are denouncing the proposal, arguing that collecting genetic information of border crossers could have implications for family members residing in the U.S.
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Health Care
Advocates for safe injection sites rallied in front of the James A Byrne Federal Courthouse in Center City to show their support for evidence-based harm reduction policies, an end to the dehumanization of people suffering from addiction and the opening o
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Judge Rules Planned Supervised Injection Site Does Not Violate Federal Drug Laws

Oct 02, 2019
The federal court decision paves the way for the nation's first supervised injection site to open in Philadelphia. The Justice Department argued that it amounted to "in-your-face illegal activity."
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Nora Isabel Gallegos, left, stands with her daughter Priscila Arévalo in the riverside park in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where her husband Guillermo was killed by the Border Patrol seven years ago.
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Investigations Of Fatal Shootings On The Border Can Drag On For Years

Sep 07, 2019
A seven-year delay in the investigation of a controversial shooting by a Border Patrol agent of a Mexican national is emblematic of a larger problem when federal officials investigate these cases.
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President Trump is joined by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (left) and Attorney General William Barr during a July event at the White House announcing that his administration is relying on federal agency records to produce citizenship data.
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Do Trump Officials Plan To Break Centuries Of Precedent In Divvying Up Congress?

Aug 14, 2019
Recent remarks raise concerns the Trump administration won't follow more than 200 years of precedent in dividing up seats in Congress based on population counts that include unauthorized immigrants.
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John Gore, the then-acting head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, speaks during a 2018 news conference in Charlottesville, Va.
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DOJ Official Behind Failed Census Citizenship Question To Leave Department

Aug 08, 2019
John Gore, the main Justice Department official behind the Trump administration's failed push for a citizenship question, is set to leave the department, a person familiar with the matter tells NPR.
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Business
T-Mobile and Sprint stores in El Cerrito, Calif. The Department of Justice approved the $26 billion merger of the two wireless carriers.
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T-Mobile And Sprint Merger Finally Wins Justice Department's Blessing

Jul 26, 2019
A deal years in the making is getting federal regulatory approval to move forward. The $26 billion merger is subject to court approval, and state attorneys general are seeking to block the deal.
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U.S. Attorney General William Barr has instructed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to change the federal execution protocol and schedule five executions.
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Federal Government To Resume Capital Punishment After Nearly 20-Year Hiatus

Jul 25, 2019
"The Justice Department upholds the rule of law — and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system," Attorney General William Barr said.
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Former acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights John Gore speaks at the Justice Department in 2018 in Washington, D.C. Gore and other Trump administration officials are accused of providing false or misleading statements about the origins of a
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Trump Officials Face Cover-Up Allegations After Failed Citizenship Question Push

Jul 16, 2019
Challengers of the Trump administration's push for a census citizenship question are asking a federal judge in New York to impose penalties for allegedly false or misleading statements by officials.
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Suboxone Film strips dissolve when placed under the tongue and are used to treat patients suffering from opioid dependency. The medication is made by Indivior, which was spun off from U.K.-based Reckitt Benckiser in 2014.
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Reckitt Benckiser Agrees To Pay $1.4 Billion In Opioid Settlement

Jul 11, 2019
The deal to resolve all U.S. federal investigations and claims is the biggest drug industry settlement so far stemming from the nation's deadly opioid epidemic.
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U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman, who hears cases at the federal courthouse in New York City, on Tuesday denied the Trump administration's request to swap out its entire legal team for the New York-based lawsuits over a potential citizenship question on
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Judges Reject Trump Administration Request To Swap Out Lawyers In Census Cases

Jul 10, 2019
Two federal judges have rejected the Trump administration's requests to completely change the legal teams defending its efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
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The Justice Department says it's changing the lineup of lawyers involved in the lawsuits over the Trump administration's push to get a citizenship question on the 2020 census forms.
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Justice Department Changes Legal Team Behind Census Citizenship Question Case

Jul 07, 2019
The Justice Department did not provide an explanation for why it's switching out lawyers representing the Trump administration in the ongoing legal battle over a potential census citizenship question.
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Demonstrators against a proposal to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in April.
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Judge To Review Claims Of Census Citizenship Question's 'Discriminatory' Origins

Jul 05, 2019
While the Justice Department continues exploring possible ways to add a question about citizenship to the census forms, a federal judge in Maryland is moving ahead with reopening two cases against it.
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Demonstrators rally outside the Supreme Court in April as the justices hear arguments over the Trump administration's plan to add a citizenship question to 2020 census forms.
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Emails Connect Census Official With GOP Strategist On Citizenship Question

Jun 15, 2019
A Census Bureau official privately discussed the citizenship question issue with Thomas Hofeller, who plaintiffs in census lawsuits argue drove the Trump administration's push for the question.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., pauses as the House Oversight and Reform Committee votes on Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents related to the Trump adm
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Trump Blocked Congress From Seeing These Emails About The Census Unredacted

Jun 14, 2019
President Trump has claimed executive privilege over emails and memos that Democratic lawmakers say may reveal the real reason why the administration pushed for a census citizenship question.
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ACLU's Voting Rights Project Director Dale Ho (center) speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court in April after arguing on behalf of plaintiffs in the lawsuits over the citizenship question the Trump administration wants to add to the 2020 census.
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Citizenship Question Lawsuit Plaintiffs Ask Supreme Court To Delay Ruling

Jun 12, 2019
In a last-minute request, plaintiffs' attorneys led by the ACLU are asking the justices to wait to rule on the census question in light of documents that show an alleged Trump administration cover-up.
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A newly sworn-in U.S. citizen holds a U.S. flag and documents during a naturalization ceremony in 2018 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
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Judge Delays Review Of 'Serious' Allegations Of Citizenship Question Cover-Up

Jun 05, 2019
A federal judge in New York says he's not planning to rule on the allegations until after the Supreme Court's likely decision this month on the fate of the census question.
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Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in April as the justices hear oral arguments over the citizenship question the Trump administration wants to add to the 2020 census.
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GOP Redistricting Strategist Played Role In Push For Census Citizenship Question

May 30, 2019
A deceased redistricting specialist's documents suggest the citizenship question was added to redraw political maps to favor Republicans and non-Hispanic white people, according to a new court filing.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller makes a statement about the Russia investigation on Wednesday at the Justice Department.
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Mueller: Charging Trump Was 'Not An Option We Could Consider'

May 29, 2019
Mueller underscored that his report did not exonerate the president. In his first public remarks, he said that he did not believe the Justice Department could charge a sitting president with a crime.
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Business
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Monday that he endorses the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.
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FCC Chairman Endorses T-Mobile Merger With Sprint

May 20, 2019
"This is a unique opportunity to speed up the deployment of 5G throughout the United States and bring much faster mobile broadband to rural Americans," said chairman Ajit Pai.
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Law
The indictment against Daniel Hale includes a chart of secret and top secret documents that he acquired and printed.
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U.S. Charges Former Intelligence Analyst With Leaking Classified Data To Reporter

May 09, 2019
Daniel Everette Hale of Nashville, Tenn., could face up to 50 years in prison if he's convicted. He's accused of printing dozens of documents — including 11 that were marked as secret or top secret.
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Politics
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., had set a Monday morning deadline for Attorney General William Barr to provide access to the unredacted Mueller report.
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House Judiciary Plans Contempt Vote For Attorney General Barr Over Mueller Report

May 06, 2019
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler issued a subpoena last month to the Justice Department to give Congress an unredacted version of the Mueller report. The deadline to comply was Monday.

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