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If chosen, Eric Holder Jr., a senior official in the Justice Department in the Clinton administration, would be the first African-American to serve as the nation's top law enforcement official.
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Barack Obama’s transition team has signaled to Eric H. Holder Jr. that he will be chosen as attorney general, but no final decision has been made, people involved in the process said.
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After a nearly two-year probe, U.S. antitrust regulators decide not to take action against the unit of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices regarding its pricing and sales practices.
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After a nearly two-year investigation, regulators decide not to take action against the unit of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices or Nvidia regarding their pricing and sales practices.
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The Web giants are in early-stage talks with antitrust regulators to avoid a challenge to their proposed advertising deal, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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A legal opinion allowing the Justice Department to dole out a $1.5 million grant to a Christian aid group that makes religious belief a condition of employment is shining new light on an obscure office that interprets laws across the government.
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John K. Russell, 73, a retired journalist and Justice Department spokesman, died Oct. 18 of lung cancer at Capital Hospice in Arlington County. He was an Arlington resident.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has told states that federal law bars them from privatizing lotteries, a money-raising strategy several hoped to use for investments in education, roads, bridges and the like, Indiana's Republican governor said in a statement on Friday.
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Federal agencies' conferences at resorts cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
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As a transition team for the Obama administration begins work on a Justice Department overhaul, the key question is where to begin.
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Restoring public confidence in law enforcement actions will be central for Obama transition team.
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The U.S. Justice Department has ordered Belgian brewer InBev to sell its American Labatt operations before it can proceed with the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder has accepted U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's conditional offer to head the Justice Department, a senior Democrat said on Tuesday.
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Eric H. Holder Jr., a former Justice Department official who was President-elect Barack Obama's campaign co-chairman, is the leading candidate to serve as the next U.S. attorney general, according to Democratic sources familiar with the choice.
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Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder on Capitol Hill in Washington in June 2008 during their time as President-elect Barack Obama's vice presidential selection team. (Photo: TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images. by Frank James President-elect Barack Obama has picked Eric Holder to...
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Barack Obama’s transition team has signaled to Eric H. Holder Jr. that he will be chosen as attorney general, but no final decision has been made, people involved in the process said.
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CBS News has learned that long-time Washington insider Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be attorney general. After some initial hesitation, Holder has now told the Obama team he wants the job.
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The CIA repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department in their investigations of the 2001 shoot-down of a Peruvian plane carrying U.S. missionaries, according to findings of an internal CIA probe released today by congressional officials.
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A potential education secretary, Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan, visited the Education Department Thursday morning on what he said was a purely social call.
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The Justice Department dealt a blow to the Pentagon this week, saying it has no legal authority to resist orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade in Maryland and two other military sites that have been contaminated by chemicals.
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Attorneys for five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead accused the government yesterday of engaging in unfair second-guessing of the contractors' actions in a combat zone.
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, the man tapped to be the next secretary of energy, has views on climate change that would be among the most forceful ever held by a cabinet member, reports the Washington Post.
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Harlow M. Huckabee, 90, a retired Justice Department lawyer who was involved in several high-profile cases and who became an expert on the insanity defense, died Dec. 15 of pneumonia at his home in Alexandria.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama filled top Justice Department posts on Monday with four former Clinton administration lawyers, including naming the Harvard Law School dean to argue the government's position in U.S. Supreme Court cases.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey said farewell to Justice Department employees Thursday, praising their dedication and poking fun at himself for a health scare last year....
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It’s Tuesday, and I have all the answers . . . Ben Gordon made a bad decision at the end of Monday night’s game in Orlando. He took a bad shot at a worse time in a two-point game that...
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Barack Obama and John McCain answer questions submitted by viewers aged 10 to 15.
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Amanda Kaschube at 6:14 p.m. Now that the baseball season has ended in Chicago with a loud thud, we can focus in great detail on that other 1st place team here. We could, in theory. But our brains...
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Briefs in three cases awaiting the attention of the United States Supreme Court suggest the justice system in West Virginia is broken and the court should take steps to fix it.
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Casting about for an explanation of the baffling resistance among Republicans in the House of Representatives to the $700-billion Wall Street bailout that every well-informed, sensible person in the country supported, the New York Times settled on populism.
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Oct 12, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Chief Justice Sarath Nanda Silva denied reports that he is getting ready to contest a future presidential election as a common candidate.
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A President not implementing tasks specified for him by the constitution amounts to violation of con..
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