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LOS ANGELES — The Department of Justice on Wednesday formally asked a federal court to limit the scope of baseball's antitrust exemption, the latest challenge to a century-old Supreme Court decision cherished by major league owners but increasingly criticized beyond the commissioner's office.

As an alleged assassination plot is foiled outside Brett Kavanaugh’s home, the issues of protecting judges and the First Amendment right to protest have come into conflict, reports Rachel Sharp

Bennie Thompson's surprising comments sparked rare public pushback from Liz Cheney and the committee's Democrats

William Barr’s testimony before the Jan. 6 committee forms part of the former attorney general’s strategy for saving his reputation in the history books. That’s a heavy lift, given Barr’s distinguished service to Donald Trump’s presidency via distortion of the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and his politicization…

If you sell a gram of cocaine on the street you’re going to jail. If you’re complicit in laundering billions of dollars for a drug cartel, your organisation may just pay a fine. Chris Blackhurst recounts the greatest banking scandal in history

The committee's public hearings are intended to lay out the case that Trump was responsible for the riot.

Authorities say Ava Misseldine led a double life for nearly two decades

Officers attempted to cover up a man’s deadly beating by saying he died in a crash. How many other similar incidents have there been?

Thursday's explosive hearing laid it out: Trump "oversaw and coordinated" a seven-point plan to overthrow election