Banks fined more than $5B, to plead guilty to market rigging
By KEN SWEET and ERIC TUCKER Four global banks agreed Wednesday to pay more than $5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to rigging the world’s curren market, the first…
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Justice Department’s Ferguson report resonates across the US
By GENE JOHNSON SEATTLE (AP) — Felix Vargas read the Justice Department’s report on Ferguson, Missouri, and thought some of it sounded awfully familiar: a mostly white police department overseeing…
Highlights of Justice Department report on Ferguson police
By JEFF DONN The Justice Department has released its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, concluding that city law enforcement practices are discriminatory and unconstitutional and calling for sweeping changes.…
DOJ: Ex-CIA chief admits mishandling classified information
David Petraeus, the former CIA director and top Army general whose affair with his biographer brought down what many considered a bright political future, has agreed to plead guilty to…
States predict inmates’ future crimes with secretive surveys
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and RONNIE GREENE On a hot Friday last July, a parolee was mowing a lawn in a small cul-de-sac on the west side of the city when…
Lynch defends Obama’s immigration policies
By ERICA WERNER and ERIC TUCKER Challenged by Republicans, Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch on Wednesday defended President Barack Obama’s decision to shelter millions of immigrants from deportation though they…
US Justice Department report released Cleveland police poorly trained, reckless
By MARK GILLISPIE Justice Department report released Thursday spared no one in the Cleveland police chain of command amid findings of excessive use of force and civil rights violations.It was…
What’s next for Libya suspect, on ship and beyond?
By ERIC TUCKER and NANCY BENAC This undated image obtained from Facebook shows Ahmed Abu Khattala, an alleged leader of the deadly 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, who…