Tag: Law

Leading that division as acting assistant attorney general will allow Dana Boente to oversee the FBI's investigation. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Dana Boente to lead DOJ’s national security division, oversee Russia probe

Kelly Cohen · April 28, 2017 7:08 pm

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundation, appears to be getting back in the game of funding local races for district attorney, this time trying to hand-pick the winner in the Philadelphia contest. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)

George Soros is back in the game of funding local races for district attorney

Todd Shepherd · April 28, 2017 5:05 pm

United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz will head to Capitol Hill Tuesday to testify in front of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in the wake of the airline's shocking removal of Dr. David Dao from a flight this month. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Lawmakers haul United CEO to Capitol Hill over passenger fiasco

Kyle Feldscher · April 28, 2017 4:40 pm

A group of 28 states, and more than 100 industry groups and companies, had sued the EPA over the Clean Power Plan. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Energy and Environment

Court delivers Trump victory on climate rule

John Siciliano · April 28, 2017 4:22 pm

A protester holds up a sign outside of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. President Trump's acknowledgment this week that he has considered breaking up the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals breathed new life into a Republican proposal that has languished in Congress for years. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Six things to know about breaking up the 9th Circuit

Sarah Bedford · April 28, 2017 3:59 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not disclose meeting with Russian officials and other foreign contacts on a security clearance form he filled out being confirmed by the Senate, CNN reported Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Jeff Sessions warns gangs: ‘We are targeting you’

Kelly Cohen · April 28, 2017 3:49 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended President Trump's criticism of federal judges, and said the real threat to an independent judiciary is the increased politicization of the judicial branch. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

Jeff Sessions defends Trump’s criticism of judges

Kyle Feldscher · April 28, 2017 12:24 pm

Infowars' Alex Jones has lost a custody over his three kids with ex-wife Kelly Jones in a case where the fiery conspiracy theorist's attorney argued that he is only "playing a character" on his show. (Screenshot)

Infowars’ Alex Jones loses child custody battle

Daniel Chaitin · April 28, 2017 3:41 am

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday that the challenges facing young women today are "more daunting" than what she experienced in the middle of the last century. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Challenges facing young women today ‘more daunting’ than in the 1950s

Ryan Lovelace · April 27, 2017 10:21 pm

Laith Waleed Alebbini, 26, was arrested at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. (Twitter)

Ohio man accused of planning to join ISIS, tried to get into Turkish embassy in Washington

Associated Press · April 27, 2017 7:15 pm

When IRS criminal probes are launched they generally consider tax evasion and fraud against the government, according to special agents. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman)

IRS raids televangelist Benny Hinn’s Texas offices

Sean Langille · April 27, 2017 6:44 pm

"I wish there was a way that we could wave a magic wand and get back to the way it was and the way it should be." (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Justice Ginsburg laments confirmation battle to confirm Gorsuch

Ryan Lovelace · April 27, 2017 6:25 pm