• News Wrap: Justice Department expected to expand limits of racial profiling

    News Wrap: Justice Department expected to expand limits of racial profiling

    Jan 17, 2014 04:04 AM EST

    ... justice that we called for in Lebanon. GWEN IFILL: Prosecutors are expected to call hundreds of witnesses, and the trial will likely last months. A searing heat wave forced the Australian Open tennis tournament to suspend play for several hours today, as temperatures in Melbourne hit 111 degrees. The world ...

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    Debating Rendition Tactics

    Dec 05, 2005 05:00 AM EST

    ... save lives, perhaps even thousands of lives. The captured terrorists of the 21st century do not fit easily into traditional systems of criminal or military justice, which were designed for different needs. We have to adapt. Other governments are now also facing this challenge. We consider the captured members of ...

  • News Wrap: Former DOJ employees call for investigation of Barr

    News Wrap: Former DOJ employees call for investigation of Barr

    Jun 10, 2020 10:50 PM EST

    ... here as long as he did. Judy Woodruff: Linick had been the State Department's inspector general since 2013. Elections officials in Georgia are under searing criticism today after voters waited for hours and voting machines failed in Tuesday's primary. Amid the confusion, a Democratic contest for a U ...

  • Trump signs executive order to keep families together at border, says 'zero-tolerance' policy will continue

    Trump signs executive order to keep families together at border, says 'zero-tolerance' policy will continue

    Jun 20, 2018 07:19 PM EST

    ... The order aims to keep families together while they are in custody, expedite their cases, and ask the Department of Defense to help house families. Justice Department lawyers had been working to find a legal workaround for a previous class-action settlement that set policies for the treatment and release ...

  • WATCH: Trump says he'll be 'signing something' on detained children

    WATCH: Trump says he'll be 'signing something' on detained children

    Jun 20, 2018 03:31 PM EST

    ... policy, but would aim to keep families together while they are in custody and ask the Department of Defense to help house the detained families. Justice Department lawyers have been working to find a legal workaround for a class-action lawsuit settlement that set policies for the treatment and release ...

  • U.S.-Mexico border sees drop in crossings after prior week's rush as Title 42 expired

    U.S.-Mexico border sees drop in crossings after prior week's rush as Title 42 expired

    May 15, 2023 12:17 AM EST

    ... and Venezuelans a month who apply online with a financial sponsor and arrive at an airport. WATCH: Biden announces tougher border restrictions, offers legal path for 30,000 each month Hundreds of predominantly Colombian migrants waited to be processed Saturday in searing heat near Jacumba, California, having slept for days ...

  • The Bergdahl trial drew powerful testimony and presidential commentary. What does that mean for sentencing?

    The Bergdahl trial drew powerful testimony and presidential commentary. What does that mean for sentencing?

    Nov 01, 2017 10:35 PM EST

    ... outpost in Eastern Afghanistan. He was held in captivity for five years. The Obama administration engineered a controversial prisoner swap with the Taliban in 2014 for his release. For more on Bergdahl and the searing testimony at his sentencing hearing, we turn now to New York Times reporter Richard Oppel ...

  • Man sentenced to death for arson attack at Japanese anime studio that killed 36

    Man sentenced to death for arson attack at Japanese anime studio that killed 36

    Jan 25, 2024 09:59 PM EST

    ... Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital, at the time of the attack. One of the survivors said he saw a black cloud rising from downstairs, then scorching heat came and he jumped from a window of the three-story building gasping for air. The company, founded in 1981 and better known ...

  • News Wrap: Judge sets trial date for Trump documents case

    News Wrap: Judge sets trial date for Trump documents case

    Jun 20, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    ... records and obstructing justice. The trial is set to be held in Fort Pierce, Florida. The date is widely expected to be pushed back.    Searing heat and soaring demand forced the Texas power grid operator to call for conservation today for the first time this year. Days of heat ...

  • WATCH: Funeral for Rayshard Brooks held at MLK's church in Atlanta

    WATCH: Funeral for Rayshard Brooks held at MLK's church in Atlanta

    Jun 23, 2020 03:21 PM EST

    ... change to the nation’s criminal justice system, and they overwhelmingly want to see clear standards on when police officers may use force and consequences for those who cross the line. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research said 29% think the criminal justice system ...