(Bloomberg) — Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $2.6 billion to settle probes into its creation and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities, as the U.S. Department...
JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in a 2012...
(Politico) – In weighing whether to bring discrimination charges against the Ferguson Police Department, the Justice Department has been “seriously examining” allegations that the city’s...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are changing the way drug defendants are charged and punished, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday, unveiling...
(Politico) – The debate about confirming Loretta Lynch is suddenly getting partisan. Democrats are now increasingly slamming the Republicans’ handling of President Barack Obama’s nominee...
WASHINGTON (Fayetteville Observer) – Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch won two key Republican endorsements Thursday en route to likely confirmation as the first black woman...
MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Standard & Poor’s is close to a $1.37 billion settlement with the Obama administration and U.S. states over...
MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Standard & Poor’s is close to a $1.37 billion settlement with the Obama administration and U.S. states over...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans demanded wholesale change at the Justice Department Thursday as they questioned whether President...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronting skeptical Republicans, attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch pledged a new start with Congress and...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Loretta E. Lynch on Wednesday will cast herself as an apolitical career prosecutor who is a departure from Eric H. Holder Jr. when she faces...
(Politico) – A federal jury’s decision Monday to convict a former CIA officer for leaking top-secret information to a New York Times reporter was a...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder called Thursday for better record-keeping on how often police officers use force and are themselves...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder called Thursday for better record-keeping on how often police officers use force and are themselves...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday announced revised guidelines for obtaining records from the news media during criminal leak investigations,...
by Bridjes O’Neil Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American Members of the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus met with those from the Organization for...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) - The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, citing “grave legal concerns,” is asking a Missouri judge to convene...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) - The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, citing “grave legal concerns,” is asking a Missouri judge to convene...