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Justice Department investigators probe private prison contract for Texas facility
Justice Department investigators on Thursday raised sharp Click here questions about management of a major private prison contract, for a facility holding unauthorized immigrants in Texas.
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Court rejects band’s bid to trademark name ‘The Slants’
A straitlaced federal court on Monday rejected an Asian-American musician’s effort to trademark his band’s name, ‘The Slants.’
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Georgia prison officials change transgender policy, seek dismissal of lawsuit
Georgia Department of Corrections officials on Friday sought to dismiss a transgender inmate’s lawsuit, citing new changes in the state’s policies regarding hormone treatments for prisoners.
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Sen. Menendez pleads not guilty, lawyer denounces DoJ
New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez on Thursday pleaded not guilty to multiple corruption charges including bribery.
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Are Obama’s 22 clemency grants the start of something big?
As they sit in federal prisons, separated from their families for years, freedom has seemed a distant dream for thousands of low-level drug offenders ordered locked up for decades, even though they’d face lesser sentences if convicted of the same crimes today.
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Attorneys tapped for Supreme Court same-sex marriage argument
The starting lineup is becoming clear for the Supreme Court’s April 28 oral argument over same-sex marriage.
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Investigators say drug cartels funded DEA ‘sex parties’ overseas
Foreign drug cartels funded ‘sex parties’ attended by Drug Enforcement Administration agents serving overseas, Justice Department investigators say in a new report.
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Rhino horn smuggler gets gored with stiff sentence
The lucrative underground trade in rhinoceros horns earned Click Here Canadian resident Xiao Ju Guan some ill-gotten gains.
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Attorneys call for closure of family detention center
A group of immigration attorneys and advocates representing mothers and children being held at a family immigration detention center in Pennsylvania have requested the state attorney general close the facility.
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Judge Bates and the art of judicial writing
Start strong. Rivet the reader’s attention. Employ gripping detail. Tantalize.
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Post-trial tensions surface in Chandra Levy case
Tension between federal prosecutors and defense attorneys bubbled over Thursday as opposing sides revisit the trial of the man accused of killing Chandra Levy.
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Cruz aide memo: Polls in N.H., S.C. going our way
An internal Cruz presidential campaign memo released today shows the Texas GOP senator polling well nationally and in the key states of New Hampshire and South Carolina since he formally launched his candidacy March 23rd.
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WH: Sen. Chuck Grassley in Washington ‘too long’
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest lashed out at congressional Republicans on Thursday for delaying a confirmation vote for Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch, suggesting Judiciary Committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley “has been in Washington too long.”
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Kansas senator’s ‘Frozen’ ring tone interrupts hearing, goes viral
Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas became an Internet sensation on Thursday when his cell phone went off in the middle of a senate finance committee hearing, filling the somber room with the first few bars of a song from Disney’s “Frozen.”
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New pro-Cruz PAC: “Make DC Listen”
Sen. Ted Cruz’s, R-Texas, state director has left his post to run a political action committee that supports Cruz, “Make DC Listen.”
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Cruz aide: you’ve gotta have friends
The chief of staff to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sent an unusual email Wednesday to some House members asking them “to say supportive things” about Cruz’s presidential candidacy.
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George W. Bush says he’s a problem for his brother, Jeb
The former president says his younger brother’s potential candidacy for the White House has a problem: him.
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Cruz reports $4.3 million campaign donations
Sen. Ted Cruz’s, R-Texas, presidential campaign collected $4.3 million in the first quarter according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission.
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Clinton Foundation limits foreign donations
The Clinton Foundation agreed Wednesday to limit its foreign donations while Hillary Clinton is running for president.
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No deal on trafficking bill, Lynch nomination
Sen. Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, is trying to resolve a dispute over the Hyde Amendment that has effectively blocked the confirmation of Loretta Lynch to be attorney general but Democrats are rejecting his latest offer.
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Clinton now says same-sex marriage should be constitutional right
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton now says same-sex marriage is a right afforded by the Constitution.
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New Clinton email revelation spurs renewed call from Benghazi committee
The chairman of the House Benghazi Committee renewed his call Wednesday for Hillary Clinton to be interviewed by his panel amid revelations that she didn’t respond to a different congressional inquiry two years ago about whether she used a private email account while serving as secretary ...
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Mexico Unmasked
Saving the monarch butterfly
A Monarch butterfly sits on a tree trunk at the Sierra Chincua Sanctuary in the mountains of Mexico's Michoacan state.
At a summit of North American leaders, the beleaguered monarch butterfly gets some love
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A lobster tale from the Mosquito Coast
The strange phenomenon of windfall cocaine off the coast of Nicaragua
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A humble food cart -- and its mouth-watering offerings
Mouth-watering seafood at a humble street cart in Mexico's Ensenada draws world famous chefs
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A Guatemalan crusader is reined in
A court ruling would cut short mandate of a crusading attorney general who has made headway against organized crime and political corruption
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A wide gap in views of Mexico's economy
Even as Mexico gets a coveted 'A' rating from Moody's, consumers are feeling rather grumpy over new taxes
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Look who's giving advice to Mexico City? Señor Bloomberg
New York City's former mayor will take to the road to espouse his manifesto on livable cities. One of the first stops: Mexico City
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Ex-guerrillas in El Salvador hang tight
A former guerrilla commander heads into El Salvador runoff election in March with a strong lead
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A general takes his leave of Mexico
A security adviser to Mexico's president returns to his native Colombia -- leaving in his wake questions about whether Mexico actually has a well-defined security strategy
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The minstrel daughter of a cartel don
Turns out that the boss of Mexico's Knights Templar crime group has a daughter who is a popular singer. Her dad remains at large
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Crossing the border on high-speed rail
A Texas legislator pushes plan for rail link that would cut travel time between Monterrey, Mexico, and San Antonio, Texas, to under two hours
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Spain's troubles and the Panama Canal
A $1.6 billion cost overrun casts a shadow over work to expand the Panama Canal, and the dispute is rippling across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain
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Observations about Mexico and Central America from Tim Johnson, Mexico Bureau Chief for McClatchyDC.
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