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Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find that President Trump or his campaign schemed with Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, said a summary released Sunday by Attorney General William Barr. Barr and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to say President Trump obstructed justice.
Former FBI director will be remembered for one of the most consequential investigations in U.S. history. Critics may judge him not aggressive enough against the president.
A jury took under four hours to conclude that former East Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld was not guilty in the killing of Antwon Rose II, 17, last June.
Off-duty officer John Rivera, 23, was sitting in a car with three other people, including another off-duty officer, when two assailants walked up, one pulled a gun and began firing into the vehicle.
An Indiana sheriff’s office said it would no longer use guns that fire projectiles after teachers at one school were left with welts, bruises and abrasions in a realistic “active-shooter” drill.
Is actual Mueller report news afoot or are we witnessing “the bored angst of journalists”? Whatever may come, the speculative frenzy surrounding the report’s supposedly imminent release has peaked (or has it?).
Federal legislation that would remove a critical barrier to the development of legal marijuana sellers’ and growers’ business — a legitimate way to use the banking system — has more momentum in Congress than before. But some states are making moves of their own.
Conditions in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras haven’t changed dramatically, nor have U.S. immigration laws yet. So why have so many more migrant families flocked to the U.S. border now?
A combination of prosecutorial obstinance, lack of legal leverage to enable post-conviction scientific testing, and an evolving science kept a man in prison until a simple test was run last week and he was freed.
One month after the Georgia Supreme Court found breathalyzer refusals could not be used as evidence against drivers, state legislators have patched up policing procedures while plotting a longer-term fix.