The U.S. Justice Department will extend new rights to same-sex married couples, according to excerpts released from a speech by Attorney General Eric Holder.
The Justice Department will revise its stance on racial profiling. That revision will restrict officials from considering religion, national origin, gender and sexual orientation in their investigations.
In our news wrap Monday, the Justice Department has filed suit against the state of North Carolina over alleged racial discrimination in a new state law that scales back early voting and imposes stricter identification requirements. Also, the latest series…
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NSA Secretly Collected Millions of Phone Records in Counterterrorism Effort…
News Wrap: Conservative Groups Speak Out at Congressional Hearing on IRS…
Disclosures About Involvement in IRS Targeting Draws Calls for More Transparency…
The Justice Department secretly subpoenaed phone records of Associated Press journalists during two months in 2012. The AP was notified that records had been secretly seized for more than 20 of its phone lines, possibly to track government leaks of…
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