Associated Press
| May 14, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder defended the Justice Department's decision to seize two months of Associated Press phone records (including for the AP phone in the House of Representatives press gallery) because of one of the "most serious leaks" he ...
Russia Today
| May 13, 2013
The president of the Associated Press has sent a strongly worded letter of protest to US Attorney General Eric Holder after the Department of Justice acknowledged seizing two months of phone records of reporters and editors. The department offere...
Russia Today
| Mar 14, 2013
Reuters social media editor Matthew Keys has been indicted for allegedly providing Anonymous activists with Tribune Company passwords that allowed them to hack the Los Angeles Times website. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 for eac...
The Wall Street Journal
| Feb 6, 2013
Standard and Poor's continued to give mortage-backed securities high marks, even though company analysts knew they were in trouble, stated Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West as he detailed allegations in a landmark Department of Justice f...
Russia Today
| Jan 24, 2013
Kim Dotcom: Freedom fighter? The Megaupload founder talks about Internet freedom and the the US case against him in this interview with Russia Today. Dotcom says his goal is to encrypt half the Internet to restore the balance between individuals a...
Democracy Now!
| Jan 17, 2013
Outrage is growing over the US Justice Department's prosecution of the 26-year-old who committed suicide last week just weeks before he was to go on trial. Pioneering computer programmer and cyber activist Aaron Swartz was facing up to 35 years in...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 16, 2012
It has been two-and-a-half years since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and spilling nearly 5 billion barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Now, oil giant BP has reached a settlement with the US government. The com...
Channel 4 News
| Nov 15, 2012
BP will pay the biggest ever criminal fine in US history as part of a $4.5bn settlement. The oil giant has pleaded guilty to 14 criminal charges relating to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 workers.
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 13, 2012
Protesters say that Wells Fargo and some other major banks offer higher mortgage rates to minorities. The US Department of Justice says they have reached a settlement with one of the lenders, Wells Fargo - which has agreed to a $175m payout. How...
— May 17 at 03:22 am
...the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City and the 2009 New York City subway suicide-bomb plot. Since the witness protection program began in 1971, it ha...
— Apr 5 at 09:24 pm
...in the United States (CFIUS), as well as the Taiwanese, German and Israeli antitrust authorities. Furthermore, Cymer stockholders have approved ...
— Feb 5 at 12:20 pm
...to be a summary of a longer one, says the United States can murder a U.S. citizen abroad (abroad but somehow “outside the area of active hostili...
— May 14 at 07:59 pm
...May 14 (Reuters) - US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday denounced the Justice Department's seizure of phone records of journalists fo...
The United States Department of Justice, also known as the Justice Department, is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.
The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet. The current Attorney General is Eric Holder.
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