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FORT WORTH, Texas — A Hurst man has pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement, resulting in body injury during the January 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to the Department of Justice.

Alaska’s largest school district repeatedly and inappropriately secluded and restrained students with disabilities

The United States will repatriate to Nigeria nearly $1 million, which were embezzled by the former governor of an oil-producing state, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.

Paxton’s lawyer had argued that federal prosecutors based out of San Antonio had an “obvious conflict” in the investigation.

President Joe Biden is hosting a screening later Thursday of the movie “Till,” which is about the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi

Justice Department officials in Washington have taken over the corruption investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, removing the case from the hands of the federal prosecutors in Texas who’d long been leading the the probe

The president reaped political benefits with his pre-election proclamation but has yet to follow through.

"Given what we've seen, the decision not to charge Gaetz seems pretty f**king remarkable," said Roger Sollenberger

Meadows is expected to assert executive privilege but may face federal criminal charges instead, experts say

Every day, the $6.7 trillion Big Tech industry affects our lives in ways that empower and harm. Despite recent hits in earnings, current layoffs and Google getting slapped with yet another lawsuit from the Justice Department, the tech giants are still all-powerful in our society, economy and daily lives. They…

LOS ANGELES — Facing long-standing allegations of “appalling” conditions inside the county’s jails and violent deputy “gangs” operating on its streets, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna on Wednesday announced the appointment of a former federal prosecutor to oversee a new office designed to combat those problems within the department.