SADIE GURMAN

April 20, 2018 at 11:33 am

Civil rights prosecutors urge charges in Garner death

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal civil rights prosecutors have recommended charging a New York police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, but it's...

April 19, 2018 at 9:07 am

FBI offers $1M for info on US reporter missing in Syria

Austin Tice, of Houston, Texas, disappeared in August 2012 while covering Syria's civil war. A video released a month later showed him blindfolded and held...

Nation & World

FILE – in this July 26, 2017, file photo, Michael Horowitz, inspector general at the Justice Department, pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump wasted no time before seizing on last weekâ€™s report by the Justice Departmentâ€™s internal watchdog on misconduct allegations against the FBIâ€™s former No. 2 official, Andrew McCabe. Trump tweeted it was proof that his archrival James Comey, the former FBI director, â€œtotally controlledâ€ McCabe. But the report by Horowitz said no such thing. In fact, it depicted clashing accounts of a conversation they had that contributed to McCabeâ€™s dismissal.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) WX202 WX202

April 18, 2018 at 3:55 pm

DOJ watchdog finds himself in familiar political hot seat

It isn’t unusual for Inspector General Michael Horowitz to see his actions — or his own credibility — caught up in Washington’s political storms. But...

April 13, 2018 at 7:46 am

As Trump attacks FBI as biased, new leaders are veterans

President Donald Trump and Republicans have criticized the FBI as institutionally biased against their party and urged Director Christopher Wray to clean house. But the...

April 8, 2018 at 9:17 pm

Justice taps prosecutor to answer GOP inquiries on Clinton

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has tapped a federal prosecutor in Chicago to respond to Republican demands for documents on the FBI's handling of...

FILE – In this Nov. 2016 file photo, the American Flag flies outside the Justice Department in Washington. A new team of federal agents is targeting online trafficking of illicit fentanyl, which is driving a rising number of overdose deaths across the U.S. Darknet drug sales are proving a challenge to law enforcement that can be more vexing than even drug cartels. The crackdown is part of the Trump administrationâ€™s tough approach to the drug crisis that some critics say resembles a return to failed drug war tactics. But there is bipartisan agreement on the need to do more against online drug dealing. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) WX102 WX102

April 3, 2018 at 6:31 am

New team targets online ‘darknet’ opioid sales fueling the drug crisis

A new team of federal agents, computer experts and analysts is tasked with fighting the kind of online opioid trafficking that law-enforcement officials say can...