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Former FTC commissioner says internet should be 'free and fair' as Google faces breakup

4:15am April 22, 2025

by Steve Inskeep

Google's ad monopoly is like a "big Wall Street bank owning the New York Stock Exchange," Rohit Chopra, former Federal Trade Commission commissioner told Morning Edition.

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N.Y. Gov. Hochul signals she may move to force NYC Mayor Eric Adams from office

3:46pm February 17, 2025

NY Gov. Hochul says she'll weigh NYC Mayor Eric Adams' future on Tuesday, after four of his longtime aides resigned over a corruption scandal involving the Trump administration.

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DOJ accuses real estate software company of helping landlords collude to raise rents

11:25am August 23, 2024

The lawsuit says RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software lets landlords effectively collude and set rents above market rate. The Texas-based company has denied the allegations.

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Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, center left, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., attend a news conference with dozens of women and girls who were sexually abused by Larry Nassar, a former doctor for Michigan State University athletics and USA Gymnastics, July 24, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Lawyers for Nassar assault survivors have reached $100M deal with Justice Department

10:50am April 18, 2024

by The Associated Press

The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.

Special counsel John Durham, the prosecutor appointed to investigate potential government wrongdoing in the early days of the Trump-Russia probe, arrives to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington on May 16, 2022.

Trump-era special counsel's final report criticizes FBI's Russia probe

5:30pm May 15, 2023

by Deepa Shivaram

Special Counsel John Durham says the DOJ and FBI "failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law" and in particular, relied on leads provided by Trump's political opponents.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Tuesday that the department's investigative operation targeting fentanyl and opioid traffickers on the dark web resulted in a record number of arrests and seizures.

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Record number of people arrested in an international fentanyl operation, DOJ says

1:47pm May 02, 2023

by Deepa Shivaram

The Department of Justice announced arrests in an international operation targeting fentanyl sales on the dark web that spanned the U.S., Europe and South America. Nearly 300 people were arrested.

Larry Jordan, 74, served 38 years in an Alabama prison and is in poor health now. One reason the U.S. trails other developed countries in life expectancy, experts say, is that it has more people behind bars and keeps them there far longer.

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When a prison sentence becomes a death sentence

5:38am April 27, 2023

by Fred Clasen-Kelly

As U.S. life expectancy falls, experts say incarceration has serious health impacts. The U.S. has one of the highest rates of people in prison or jail in the developed world.

Helen Biesenbach leaves a message at a memorial where 26 crosses were placed to honor the victims killed at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs on November 9, 2017 in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

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DOJ reaches settlement with families of Sutherland Springs mass shooting

2:05pm April 05, 2023

by Deepa Shivaram

The department announced it had reached a tentative settlement of $144.5 million, ending a legal back-and-forth that has lasted years.

A candlelight vigil for Tyre Nichols in Memphis is held in January.

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A judge blocks the release of additional footage of the beating death of Tyre Nichols

3:44pm March 08, 2023

by Becky Sullivan

The 20-some hours of video and audio footage were set to be released Wednesday alongside other documents from the city's investigation into the officers involved in the 29-year-old Black man's death.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, left, speaks with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., during the Ticketmaster hearing on Jan. 24.

Senators are calling on the Justice Department to look into Ticketmaster's practices

3:30pm February 23, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

The leaders of the Senate subcommittee that held a hearing into Ticketmaster last month shared evidence with the Justice Department and asked it to "continue examining" the company's conduct.