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Judge dismisses US antitrust suits vs. Facebook

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Marcy Gordon Associated PressJune 28, 2021

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference on voting rights at the Department of Justice in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Justice sues Ga. over new voting law

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Christina A. Cassidy Associated PressJune 25, 2021

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NSA contractor in leak case leaves prison

by Michael Balsamo Associated PressJune 14, 2021

Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division John Demers speaks at a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Oct. 19. Demers will leave his position by the end of next week, a Justice Department official said Monday.

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Justice official quits amid spying uproar

by Michael Balsamo Associated PressJune 14, 2021

FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., speak with members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Justice Department under former President Donald Trump secretly seized data from the accounts of at least two Democratic lawmakers in 2018 as part of an aggressive crackdown on leaks related to the Russia investigation and other national security matters, according to three people familiar with the seizures. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Justice Dept., Congress probing Trump seizures of Dems’ data

by Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressJune 11, 2021

This artist rendering shows Joel Greenberg, right, and his attorney Fritz Scheller, left, during a hearing in federal court in Orlando, Fla., on Monday, May 17, 2021. Greenberg emerged as a central figure in the Justice Department's sex trafficking investigation into U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Bridges)

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Gaetz associate takes plea deal on sex trafficking charges

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Mike Schneider Associated PressMay 17, 2021

FILE - In this May 11, 2021 photo, Rochelle Walensky, Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Tuesday, May 11, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP)

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CDC: Fully vaccinated people can largely ditch masks

by Zeke Miller Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressMay 13, 2021

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2020, file photo, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. Federal agents raided Giuliani’s Manhattan home and office on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, seizing computers and cellphones in a major escalation of the Justice Department’s investigation into the business dealings of former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Feds raid Giuliani’s home, office, escalating criminal probe

by Michael R. Sisak Associated Press, Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Eric Tucker Associated PressApril 29, 2021

This combo of booking photos provided by the Glynn County, Ga., Detention Center, shows from left, Travis McMichael, his father, Gregory McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges against the three men Wednesday in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year.

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Hate crime charges filed in Arbery death

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Russ Bynum Associated PressApril 28, 2021

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2020, file photo, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. A law enforcement official tells the Associated Press that federal investigators have executed a search warrant at Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan residence. The former New York City mayor has been under investigation for several years over his business dealings in Ukraine....

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Feds search Giuliani’s home, office

by Michael R. Sisak Associated Press, Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Eric Tucker Associated PressApril 28, 2021