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The Latest: Democrats rip DOJ spending on seminar gifts

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State may have collected record amount of unused medications

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Everett Matthews of Baton Rouge, holds up a sign outside the Triple S Food Mart, where Alton Sterling was killed last year, in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Alton Sterling, whose death was captured on cell phone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Alton Sterling case: DOJ expects not to file charges against Baton Rouge officers: Reports

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Damon Brumfield, a student at Southern University of Baton Rouge, poses while his friends take photos, in front of a mural honoring Alton Sterling, outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Sterling, whose death was captured on cell phone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The Latest: Sterling’s son says thinks about dad every night

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In this Feb. 5, 2016, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. Two media reports say U.S. prosecutors are preparing or closely considering charges against the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, including Assange, for revealing sensitive government secrets. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) **FILE**

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks publisher, asks Sweden to drop arrest warrant amid pending DOJ indictment

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Damon Brumfield, a student at Southern University of Baton Rouge, poses while his friends take photos, in front of a mural honoring Alton Sterling, outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Sterling, whose death was captured on cell phone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Alton Sterling case: State charges still possible for Baton Rouge officers

By Sadie Gurman and Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Eric Treene, Special Counsel For Religious Discrimination, Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on responses to the increase in religious hate crimes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Justice Dept. won’t slack on prosecuting hate crimes, agency official says

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Darin Fontenette, left, football coach for Na'Quincy Pierson, son of Alton Sterling, pats Na'Quincy on the head outside the Triple S Food Mart, where Sterling was killed last year in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Sterling, whose death was captured on cell phone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The Latest: Sterling’s aunt calls for justice at vigil

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FILE - In this April 28, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in Central Islip, N.Y. With two dust-ups in one week, first with a Hawaiian judge and another with leaders of the nation’s largest and most powerful police department, Sessions sounds to some more like the conservative senator from Alabama he once was rather than the top prosecutor he is today. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Critics question top US prosecutor’s style after blunt words

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

FIFA audit official admits bribery in US federal probe

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department has worked arm in arm with the Department of Homeland Security to cover the most ground when it comes to implementing the Trump administration's priorities. (Associated Press/File)

Jeff Sessions lays Justice foundation in difficult 100 days

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Correction: Immunity-Q&A story

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Prosecutor: Wisconsin deputy was justified in shooting

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Erica Leyva with the Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network of San Jose, Calif., carries a sign outside a courthouse where a federal judge heard arguments in the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order to withhold funding from communities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities Friday, April 14, 2017, in San Francisco. An attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice said the executive order withholding funds from sanctuary cities applies to a small pot of grant money, not hundreds of millions of dollars as claimed in lawsuits in California. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

Donald Trump’s sanctuary city order ruled likely unconstitutional

By Stephen Dinan and Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

In this April 25, 2017 photo provided by ABC 7 Eyewitness News in New York, a wooden hammock lay on the sidewalk in New York. Police say that an tourist from England was injured and taken to the hospital when the hammock fell from the building she was talking near and struck her. Police believe wind may have blown the wooden framed hammock off the building's terrace. (ABC 7 Eyewitness News via AP)

Obama labeling cops racist can be reversed by Trump

By Alfred S. Regnery

A look at locales and money under Justice Dept scrutiny

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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, a woman holds a sign at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco. The Trump administration is moving beyond rhetoric in its effort to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The Justice Department is forcing nine communities to prove they are complying with an immigration law to continue receiving coveted law enforcement grant money. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Sanctuary cities threatened with loss of federal grant money

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

A New York City Police Department Transit officer and his dog patrol at the subway station under Grand Central Terminal, in New York, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Dan Donovan, Staten Island congressman, defends NYPD from Trump DOJ’s ‘soft on crime’ criticism

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Demonstrators at Los Angeles International Airport showed support for President Trump's executive order banning travel to the U.S. from seven primarily Muslim nations. (Associated Press)

DOJ to judge: Trump is no lawyer, ignore his ‘Muslim ban’ comments

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, a woman holds a sign at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco. The Trump administration is moving beyond rhetoric in its effort to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The Justice Department is forcing nine communities to prove they are complying with an immigration law to continue receiving coveted law enforcement grant money. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Justice Dept. warns sanctuary cities in immigration fight

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press