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... time the advice was changed, it was too late for many on the upper floors to escape. London Fire Brigade came in for further criticism for a “chronic lack of effective management and leadership," poor training in high-rise fires and outdated communications equipment. The Grenfell tragedy prompted soul-searching ...
... more limited requirement, mandating a court order for when the FBI wants to conduct queries on Americans to find evidence of a crime but not for when the FBI is searching the intelligence database for foreign intelligence information. Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat who said he had not yet ...
... moments, Stephanie, since summer of last year, starting with the fact that the former president himself was the person that announced that the FBI was searching his home, was searching his Mar a Lago home for these classified documents. We learned that first from the former president and all along ...
... how much the government paid to do it. Of the $36.2 million in legal costs fighting such lawsuits last year, the Justice Department accounted for $12 million, the Homeland Security Department for $6.3 million and the Pentagon for $4.8 million. The three departments accounted for more than ...
... unit and faces desertion and misbehavior charges. Bergdahl was captured and held by the Taliban and its allies for five years. Two soldiers who went searching were seriously wounded. Obama exchanged Bergdahl in 2014 for five Taliban prisoners. Because of his military involvement, both the Justice Department and Defense Department ...
... publicized ones that challenge the massive collection without warrants of telephone records by the National Security Agency. Though the details and scale are far different - searching a single phone for evidence that could send someone to jail versus gathering huge amounts of data, almost all of which will never be ...
... just weeks after the mass murders in Aurora, Colorado, the president called for -- quote -- "soul searching" about gun violence, but again stopped short of calling for new laws. Law enforcement officials in Wisconsin said the gun used in yesterday's shooting had been purchased legally. And for more on this ...
... bombing. MARGARET WARNER: Now, what about -- Justice Breyer wrote the dissent for four of the justices. MARCIA COYLE: Yes, he did. He was joined by Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan. And Justice Breyer felt that there just wasn't enough evidence here to justify strip-searching people who committed minor ...
... who was convicted of killing a 2-year-old boy on Easter Sunday in 2006. WATCH: What a Supreme Court decision on vaccine mandates means for workers By an 8-1 vote, the justices held that defendant Darrell Hemphill's constitutional rights were violated when a judge allowed jurors to ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the broad reach of a federal law that bars people with misdemeanor domestic violence convictions from owning guns.
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