Tag: Kelly Cohen

There is a backlog of 1.2 million expired visa cases according to the inspector general. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

DHS catches less than 1 percent of visa overstays: report

Kelly Cohen · May 4, 2017 4:07 pm

Chris Stewart, left, attorney for Alton Sterling's son Cameron Sterling and his mother Quinyetta McMillan, hugs family members of Alton Sterling as they arrive at federal court in Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, May 3, 2017, to meet with the U.S. Justice Department officials. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

DOJ says ‘insufficient evidence’ exists to charge cops who shot Alton Sterling

Kelly Cohen · May 3, 2017 7:38 pm

One out of every seven prisoners in the U.S. is serving a life sentence in some capacity. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Record number of Americans serving life prison sentences

Kelly Cohen · May 3, 2017 5:37 pm

FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Comey: Russia is still interfering with US politics

Kelly Cohen · May 3, 2017 4:13 pm

FBI Director James Comey defended his decision to tell Congress that he was reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails with less than two weeks before Election Day. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

James Comey: Not revealing reopened Clinton investigation would have been ‘catastrophic’

Kelly Cohen · May 3, 2017 3:05 pm

Eric Treene, Special Counsel For Religious Discrimination, Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on responses to the increase in religious hate crimes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Democratic senators blame Trump for rise in hate crimes during hearing

Kelly Cohen · May 2, 2017 9:45 pm

Michael Slager pleaded guilty to using excessive force in the April 4, 2015, shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott. (Grace Beahm/Post and Courier via AP, Pool)

Former South Carolina cop pleads guilty to shooting unarmed black man

Kelly Cohen · May 2, 2017 9:00 pm

White House reporters Alex Pappas and Sarah Westwood are on Examining Politics to discuss the week ahead for the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to sign religious freedom executive order, says report

Kelly Cohen · May 2, 2017 8:26 pm

Treene told the Senate committee that hate crimes make up roughly four percent of all violent crime in the United States. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

DOJ to hold summit on hate crimes

Kelly Cohen · May 2, 2017 3:58 pm

The data shows that about 24 percent of the federal prison population are foreign born, 45,493. Of those, just 3,939 are U.S. citizens, and the remaining 41,554 are illegally in the United States. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

More than 90 percent of foreign-born federal prison inmates are illegal immigrants

Kelly Cohen · May 2, 2017 3:36 pm

Sessions is stuck however for right now until June 30, when he will receive letters of compliance from eight specific cities. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Jeff Sessions stuck in sanctuary city quandary

Kelly Cohen · April 29, 2017 5:56 pm

David Clarke, Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wis., could soon land himself a position in the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Could Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke be appointed to DHS?

Kelly Cohen · April 28, 2017 7:32 pm