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Customers, left to right, Alli Bertucci, Patrick Bean, and Ali Regan shop for marijuana inside the retail store at 3D Cannabis Center, in Denver, Friday Feb. 14, 2014. The marijuana industry breathed a sigh of relief Friday after federal banking regulators issued long-awaited permission for them to access basic banking services. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Feds let banks and marijuana sellers do business

Pete Yost · February 15, 2014 3:39 am

Gov: Bridgestone agrees to plead guilty

Pete Yost · February 13, 2014 6:47 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2014 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Holder called on a group of states Tuesday to restore voting rights to ex-felons, part of a push to fix what he sees as flaws in the criminal justice system that have a disparate impact on racial minorities. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

AG urges restoring voting rights to ex-inmates

Pete Yost · February 11, 2014 11:44 pm

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Government report: Cyberattacks not coordinated

Pete Yost · February 11, 2014 5:00 am

Govt report: Cyberattacks not coordinated

Pete Yost · February 11, 2014 3:04 am

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2014 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In an assertion of same-sex marriage rights, Holder is applying a landmark Supreme Court ruling to the Justice Department, announcing Saturday that same-sex spouses cannot be compelled to testify against each other, should be eligible to file for bankruptcy jointly and are entitled to the same rights and privileges as federal prison inmates in opposite-sex marriages. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Holder applies same-sex marriage ruling to Justice

Pete Yost · February 9, 2014 2:52 am

Administration backs no corruption claim for IRS

Pete Yost · February 4, 2014 11:12 pm

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Death penalty decision imminent in Boston bombing

Pete Yost · January 29, 2014 10:16 pm

Holder offers assurances on surveillance

Pete Yost · January 29, 2014 8:51 pm

This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. USIS, the company that handled a background check on National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden allegedly defrauded the government by submitting at least 665,000 investigations that had not been properly completed, and then tried to cover it up when the government suspected what was going on. (AP Photo/The Guardian)

National Security

Background check company hit by gov’t complaint

Pete Yost · January 23, 2014 11:04 pm

Justice likely to expand profiling definition

Pete Yost · January 16, 2014 9:07 pm

Marshals service denies some of diplomat’s claims

Pete Yost · December 19, 2013 4:22 pm