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Passengers wait in line at the security checkpoint at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in Arlington, Va. The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes and trains and in travel hubs. The notice came minutes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked the Justice Department to appeal the decision handed down by a federal judge in Florida earlier this week....

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Justice to appeal travel mask ruling

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Zeke Miller Associated PressApril 20, 2022

New York City Police Department personnel gather at the entrance to a subway stop in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Multiple people were shot and injured Tuesday at a subway station in New York City during a morning rush hour attack that left wounded commuters bleeding on a train platform. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Man wanted in Brooklyn subway attack arrested, officials say

by Michael R. Sisak Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressApril 13, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2022, to announce a final version of his administration's ghost gun rule, which comes with the White House and the Justice Department under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Biden aims at ‘ghost gun’ violence with new rule

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Zeke Miller Associated PressApril 11, 2022

This Feb. 6, 2022, booking photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Smiley Allen Martin, two days before he was released to Sacramento County probation for his sentence on charges of corporal injury and assault likely to cause great bodily injury. Martin was arrested Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in connection with a mass shooting that killed six people in Sacramento, Calif. Martin is the brother of Dandrae Martin, the first suspect taken into...

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Police: At least 5 gunmen involved in Sacramento mass shooting

by Adam Beam Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressApril 6, 2022

FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland listens during a meeting of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force at the Justice Department, March 10, 2022 in Washington. The lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol have been increasingly using their public statements, court filings and committee reports to deliver a blunt message to Garland and the Department of Justice to act on their findings. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Jan. 6 panel ups pressure on AG Garland to bring charges

by Farnoush Amiri Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressApril 1, 2022

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks after President Joe Biden announced Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court in the Cross Hall of the White House, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court

by Colleen Long Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressFebruary 25, 2022

FILE - Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer listens during a forum at the French Cultural Center in Boston, Feb. 13, 2017. Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court, two sources told The Associated Press Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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Justice Breyer set to retire

by Mark Sherman Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressJanuary 26, 2022

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, June 25, 2017. Rhodes and 10 other members of the right-wing militia group have been charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Eleven members of Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol riot

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, Colleen Long Associated Press, and Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressJanuary 13, 2022

Toppled chairs line W. Main St. in downtown Waukesha, Wis., after an SUV drove into a parade of Christmas marchers Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

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Wis. police: Man who drove into parade, killing 5, was in a domestic disturbance

by Scott Bauer Associated Press, Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Mike Householder Associated PressNovember 22, 2021

Toppled chairs line W. Main St. in downtown Waukesha, Wis., after an SUV drove into a parade of Christmas marchers Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

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SUV driver in Wisconsin parade crash may have been fleeing a crime

by Scott Bauer Associated Press, Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Mike Householder Associated PressNovember 22, 2021