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FILE – In this Aug. 14, 2019, file photo former Fed Chair Janet Yellen speaks with FOX Business Network guest anchor Jon Hilsenrath in the Fox Washington bureau in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) WX118 WX118

November 23, 2020 at 12:44 pm

AP source: Biden taps ex-Fed chair Yellen to lead treasury

Yellen, who is widely admired in the financial world, would be the first woman to lead the Treasury Department. Her nomination was confirmed by a... Updated 4:53 pm

Business

November 23, 2020 at 11:04 am

Federal prisons to prioritize staff to receive virus vaccine

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal prison system will be among the first government agencies to receive the coronavirus vaccine, though initial allotments of the vaccine... Updated 4:49 pm

November 21, 2020 at 8:12 am

Biden to work to end executions as government sets 3 more

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is against the death penalty and will work to end its use, his spokesman said Saturday, as the Justice...

November 20, 2020 at 4:23 pm

Justice Dept. plans 3 more executions in lame-duck period

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has scheduled three more federal executions during the lame-duck period before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, including two just...

November 19, 2020 at 11:15 am

Mossimo Giannulli reports to prison in college bribery case

BOSTON (AP) — Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli reported to prison on Thursday to begin serving his five-month sentence for bribing his daughters' way into college,...

Entertainment

November 19, 2020 at 10:56 am

Judge halts federal execution after lawyers contract virus

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is temporarily blocking the federal government’s plan to execute the first female death row inmate in almost six decades...

November 17, 2020 at 2:42 pm

US dropping case against former Mexican defense secretary

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is dropping its drug trafficking and money laundering case against former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, Attorney...

November 17, 2020 at 8:47 am

Federal prison left inmates with virus in housing for a week

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prison complex in Louisiana that emerged as an early coronavirus hotspot — with hundreds of inmates suffering from the virus...

November 16, 2020 at 12:40 pm

Delay sought after lawyers for woman on death row get virus

WASHINGTON (AP) — The two attorneys representing the first woman scheduled to be put to death by the U.S. government in more than six decades...

FILE – In the is Oct. 10, 2019 file photo, El Paso Walmart shooting suspect Patrick Crusius pleads not guilty during his arraignment in El Paso, Texas. Hate crimes across the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting hate crime data in the early 1990s. An FBI report released Monday showed there were 51 hate crime murders in 2019. That includes 22 people who were killed in a shooting that targeted Mexicans at a Walmart in the border city of El Paso, Texas in August 2019. (Briana Sanchez / El Paso Times via AP, Pool, File) TXKJ101 TXKJ101

November 16, 2020 at 9:43 am

Hate crimes in US reach highest level in more than a decade

There were 7,314 hate crimes last year, up from 7,120 the year before — and approaching the 7,783 of 2008. The FBI report defines hate...