WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to the IRS targeting of conservative groups, Attorney General Eric Holder vows, "Anybody who has broken the law will be held accountable."
But he told lawmakers today that it will take time to determine if there was any criminal wrongdoing.
Holder says the criminal investigation will cover possible civil rights violations, false statements, and potential violations of the federal ban on some partisan political...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday that a challenge to Arkansas' new law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy can proceed, rejecting the state's attempt to get the lawsuit dismissed.
U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that the lawsuit, which was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of two Little Rock abortion providers, made a strong enough case to warrant...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police have arrested a man after discovering explosive material in his car and potential explosive devices in his apartment.
Sgt. Rudy Lopez says the bomb squad responded today to an apartment complex in the Palms neighborhood. Four buildings have been evacuated and several blocks have been sealed off.
Lopez says a routine traffic stop Tuesday night led to the findings after officers discovered a clear liquid containing...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A lawsuit filed against the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph and Bishop Robert Finn by a girl who was 2 years old when Kansas City priest Shawn Ratigan took pornographic photos of her has tentatively been settled for $600,000, a Minnesota attorney representing the girl said Wednesday.
Gregg Meyers of the St. Paul, Minn., law firm Jeff Anderson and Associates told The Associated Press about the deal before it had been officially announced. He said...
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors in the Colorado theater shootings say laws on insanity and the death penalty are constitutional and don't need any of the explanations requested by the defense.
Attorneys for the state filed their response Wednesday to motions by James Holmes' lawyers saying the laws are vague. The defense also argues the laws violate Holmes' rights by possibly barring him from calling witnesses to testify about his mental health during the trial's...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department's handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to The Associated Press before issuing subpoenas for the news service's telephone records.
In exchanges that often turned testy, Holder defended the inquiry while pointing out that he had removed himself from any decision on subpoenas. The attorney...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A woman has sued Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy, claiming he or a body guard hit her, threw a drink at her and tossed her off a party bus on the New Jersey Turnpike last December.
The woman, identified by the fictitious name Mary Roe in legal papers, filed the suit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on May 10.
She's asking for more than $50,000 in damages.
She says she was one of about 15...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government information leaks and collisions with the media date back decades and decades. Think back to the Pentagon Papers.
In the early 1970s, the Justice Department went to court to prevent further publication in The New York Times of portions of a top-secret study, dubbed the Pentagon Papers, which was packed with damaging details about America's conduct of the Vietnam War. It led to a landmark First Amendment case before the Supreme Court, which...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says a serious national security leak made necessary the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press.
Holder today stood by the investigation during testimony to a House committee, though he insisted he had no involvement in it. That prompted one Republican to complain that there seems to be no "acceptance of responsibility for things that have gone wrong."
The attorney general...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama held assets last year that were worth between $1.8 million and nearly $7 million, according to federal financial disclosure forms the White House released Wednesday.
Required by law, the forms allow public officials to list their assets in broad ranges, such as between $1 million and $5 million, which makes it difficult to determine a precise net worth.
Obama signed the eight-page...
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