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Deaths in custody are a crisis, but data on them is a black hole, a new report says

A new report indicates that the federal government severely undercounts people who died while being transported, detained or arrested by law enforcement and those who died while incarcerated.

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Judge O'Connor Rules that the Boeing 737 MAX Crashes Victims' Families Cannot Enforce Their Right to Confer with Prosecutors

While expressing great sympathy for the victims' families, Judge O'Connor concludes that no remedy is available for the Justice Department's failure to enforce the families' right to confer under the Crime Victims' Rights Act.

Reason

Border, Bidens, COVID: House GOP casts wide net in probes

House Republicans are launching far-reaching investigations as part of their oversight agenda of the Biden administration

The Independent UK

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New research could help nurses, police detect bruises on people with dark skin

New scientific research is making it easier to detect bruises on people with darker skin, which has big implications for assault and violence cases that go to court.

WEKU

Supreme Court for first time casts doubt on Section 230, the legal shield for Big Tech

WASHINGTON — Internet giants like Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter owe much of their success to a legal shield erected by Congress in 1996.

Los Angeles Times

Linked to a 1988 massacre in El Salvador, a Texas man is stripped of his US citizenship

DALLAS — A Texas man has been stripped of his U.S. citizenship and deported after he was linked to human rights violations as a military officer during the civil war in El Salvador.

Tribune News Service

Top Jan 6 committee investigator says former Trump aides could be charged

Committee recommended four charges for Donald Trump last year

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Pence’s DC office searched with no new secret documents found

The U.S. Justice Department completed a “thorough and unrestricted search” for several hours at the office of Mike Pence’s advocacy organization and found no new documents with classified markings, an adviser for the former vice president said Friday.

Tribune News Service

DOJ search of Pence's office turns up no new classified docs

The Justice Department has searched the office of former Vice President Mike Pence’s Washington advocacy group as part of its investigation into the discovery of sensitive documents at the homes and offices of current and former top U.S. officials

The Independent UK

Boeing’s misconduct hasn’t stopped Illinois politicians from taking campaign cash from the company

Based in Chicago until last year, the aerospace giant has given $50,000 to legislative leaders and other politicians since it admitted in 2021 it deceived regulators about a new aircraft that crashed twice overseas.

Chicago Sun-Times

Texas man pleads guilty to assaulting police in Jan. 6 US Capitol riot

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Hurst man has pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement, resulting in body injury during the January 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to the Department of Justice.

Tribune News Service

DOJ faults Alaska district for use of seclusion, restraints

Alaska’s largest school district repeatedly and inappropriately secluded and restrained students with disabilities

The Independent UK

U.S. says it will repatriate to Nigeria about $1 million embezzled by ex-official

The United States will repatriate to Nigeria nearly $1 million, which were embezzled by the former governor of an oil-producing state, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.

Reuters

D.C.-based DOJ investigators take over corruption probe into Attorney General Ken Paxton

Paxton’s lawyer had argued that federal prosecutors based out of San Antonio had an “obvious conflict” in the investigation.

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The Independent UK

Biden hosts screening of film about lynching of Emmett Till

President Joe Biden is hosting a screening later Thursday of the movie “Till,” which is about the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi

The Independent UK

Justice Dept. in DC taking over Texas AG corruption probe

Justice Department officials in Washington have taken over the corruption investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, removing the case from the hands of the federal prosecutors in Texas who’d long been leading the the probe

Reason

Four Months After Biden Promised Marijuana Pardons, He Has Not Issued Any

The president reaped political benefits with his pre-election proclamation but has yet to follow through.

Salon

Reporters stunned DOJ dropped Gaetz case

"Given what we've seen, the decision not to charge Gaetz seems pretty f**king remarkable," said Roger Sollenberger

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Salon

Mark Meadows hit with Jan. 6 subpoena

Meadows is expected to assert executive privilege but may face federal criminal charges instead, experts say

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Big Tech makes billions off our personal data. It’s time for the US to pull in the reins

Every day, the $6.7 trillion Big Tech industry affects our lives in ways that empower and harm. Despite recent hits in earnings, current layoffs and Google getting slapped with yet another lawsuit from the Justice Department, the tech giants are still all-powerful in our society, economy and daily lives. They…

Los Angeles Times

LA County sheriff creates new office to 'eradicate all deputy gangs'

LOS ANGELES — Facing long-standing allegations of “appalling” conditions inside the county’s jails and violent deputy “gangs” operating on its streets, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna on Wednesday announced the appointment of a former federal prosecutor to oversee a new office designed to combat those problems within the department.

The Independent UK

Feds open civil rights probe after deputies shoot Black man

The Justice Department says it has opened a civil rights investigation after a Black man in Mississippi spent three weeks hospitalized after being shot during a drug raid by sheriff's deputies

Orlando Sentinel

US Rep. Matt Gaetz won’t face charges from Greenberg-related probe

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Department of Justice has decided against pursuing sex-trafficking charges against U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, his lawyers said Wednesday, following a lengthy investigation that emerged from the criminal case against former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg.

Tribune News Service

Justice Department reportedly won’t charge Rep. Matt Gaetz

WASHINGTON — The office of Rep. Matt Gaetz confirmed media reports Wednesday that the Justice Department had said it concluded a criminal investigation and does not plan to charge the Florida Republican with a crime.

WEKU

Dozens of inmates have died in a Houston jail since 2021. Now the FBI is investigating

Dozens of inmates have died while in custody at the Harris County Jail, according to attorneys representing victims' families. The FBI has opened civil rights investigations into two of the deaths.

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