JIM SALTER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Department of Justice investigators on Wednesday heard one story after another about police harassment and brutality in Ferguson,...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Working to combat an increasingly lucrative crime that crosses national boundaries, Justice Department officials are pressing for a new...
(Politico) – Civil rights leaders and community activists cheered when Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced on Thursday that the Justice Department would be investigating...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department plans to open a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri. Police...
FERGUSON, Mo. (The Washington Post) — Twelve days after the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, six people were arrested. A bottle was thrown at police....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bank of America’s purchase of Countrywide Financial has cost it tens of billions of dollars over the past six years. An expected...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder to Ferguson, Missouri, to meet with federal law enforcement authorities investigating the police...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday sided with challengers of voting laws in Wisconsin and Ohio, saying in court filings...
MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — The head of the Pennsylvania State Police urged the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday to withdraw a new...
(The Washington Post) – Nearly every criminal case reviewed by the FBI and the Justice Department as part of a massive investigation started in 2012 of problems...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Newark police engaged in the excessive use of force, routinely stopped people on the street for no legitimate reason and regularly...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — SunTrust has agreed to pay nearly $1 billion to resolve allegations that it underwrote and endorsed faulty mortgage loans,...
[THE WASHINGTON POST] Bank of America is negotiating to pay at least $12 billion to settle several federal and state civil probes for its role in...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund have reached an agreement with the four major...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have never seen so much venom, evil and dishonesty coming from a presidential administration as the one we...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, is as important as the killing of White mothers’ sons,...
