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Interior Dept. offers $20 million in grants for 'slip-on tankers' to help towns fight wildfires
The Department of the Interior said Monday that up to $20 million is available to help local governments better respond to wildfires in…
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Eggs-asperated: Justice Dept. battles states over cage-free laws
The Trump administration, under pressure to lower food costs, is suing states that require eggs for sale in grocery stores come from…
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Justice Dept. opens civil rights investigation into Alex Pretti's death
The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal Border Patrol…
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Justice Dept. sues Virginia to demand access to voter list
The Trump Justice Department has sued to get access to Virginia's full voter registration list, saying the state has illegally refused to…
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Justice Dept. issues subpoenas probing Minnesota leaders for obstructing federal enforcement
The Trump Justice Department is pursuing an investigation into top Minnesota political leaders for impeding federal law enforcement and…
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Trump's Education Dept. to garnish wages of delinquent student borrowers in January
The Trump administration says it will kick off the new year by garnishing the wages of people who are delinquent on student loan…
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Justice Dept. says it needs more time to release up to 1 million more Epstein documents
The Justice Department said Wednesday that it needs more time to release the whole trove of documents pertaining to deceased sex offender…
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Supreme Court rebuffs Justice Dept. in case involving gag order on immigration judges
The Supreme Court has delivered a rare setback to the Trump Justice Department, declining to get involved right now in a case challenging…
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Justice Dept. indicts Democratic Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick on charges of stealing $5M in relief funds
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds…
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Senators divided over government payout for Biden Justice Dept. spying on their phone records
The Senate is debating whether to repeal, expand or keep a new law that allows senators to sue the government for damages if their phone…
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Justice Dept. searching for man who smashed part of Alina Habba's New Jersey office
The Department of Justice on Thursday said it is searching for a suspect who became aggressive toward federal prosecutor Alina Habba in…
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Consumer watchdog CFPB to run out of money early next year after Justice Dept. rules funding illegal
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a Wall Street cop signed into law by President Obama, is about to run out of money after the…
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Trump requests Justice Dept. probe into possible price-fixing by major meatpackers
President Trump says meatpacking companies are driving up beef prices, so he wants the Department of Justice to investigate and "protect…
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Theo Von Demands Dept. of Homeland Security Remove Clip That Features Him: ‘Keep Me Out of Your ‘Banger’ Deportation Videos’
Theo Von, comedian and host of popular podcast “This Past Weekend,” objected to a video posted by the Trump administration’s Department of…
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Justice Dept. says noncitizen from Canada voted illegally in 9 U.S. elections over 20 years
Federal prosecutors announced charges Thursday against a Canadian citizen they say repeatedly registered and voted in elections in North…
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‘Dept. Q’ Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix
Netflix has renewed “Dept. Q” for a second season. The series stars Matthew Goode as Carl Morck, a detective chief inspector in Edinburgh.…
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Justice Dept. directs employees not to use preferred pronouns
The Justice Department sent out an internal memo on Tuesday directing employees not to use preferred pronouns in their email signatures.…
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Justice Dept. launches probe of New York AG Letitia James for violations of Trump's civil rights
The Justice Department has served New York Attorney General Letitia James with a pair of subpoenas as part of a grand jury investigation…
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Justice Dept. announces largest health care fraud takedown ever; $14.6 billion in bogus claims
Russian-led scammers bought out legitimate U.S. medical companies, stole the identities of more than one million Americans and submitted…
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Trump's Justice Dept. sues Los Angeles over sanctuary city policy
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to dismantle Los Angeles' sanctuary policies, saying the city specifically rewrote…
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Ousted Justice Dept. lawyer says Trump administration sought to mislead judge over deportations
A Justice Department lawyer who was booted from his job by Attorney General Pam Bondi has told Congress that the administration was…
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Appeals court allows Trump to strip union rights from USAID, State Dept. employees
A federal appeals court has given temporary approval for President Trump to strip collective bargaining rights from employees at the State…
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Justice Dept. investigating Biden's final pardons for autopen abuse
The Justice Department is investigating the legitimacy of thousands of pardons that President Biden issued during his final days in…
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Netflix’s ‘Dept. Q’ Is an Emotionally Fraught Crime Thriller That Never Lets Up: TV Review
It takes a particular type of tenacious human being to doggedly pursue clues long after things have stalled, and Netflix‘s latest crime…