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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on March 2, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Democrats filibuster trafficking bill; GOP to delay Lynch nomination

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivers a sermon at a mosque in Iraq on July 5, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, former Air Force mechanic, charged with trying to join Islamic State

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the St. Louis County Police Department on Sunday, March 15, 2015, shows Jeffrey Williams. Williams, 20, is charged with two counts of first-degree assault, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle and three counts of armed criminal action in connection with the shooting of two police officers who were keeping watch over a demonstration outside the Ferguson Police Department on March 12. (AP Photo/St. Louis County Police Department)

Ferguson shooting suspect told police he was aiming for someone else

By Jim Salter - Associated Press

This photo provided by the St. Louis County Police Department on Sunday, March 15, 2015, shows Jeffrey Williams. Williams, 20, is charged with two counts of first-degree assault, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle and three counts of armed criminal action in connection with the shooting of two police officers who were keeping watch over a demonstration outside the Ferguson Police Department on March 12. (AP Photo/St. Louis County Police Department)

Man, 20, accused of shooting officers at Ferguson protest

By Jim Salter - Associated Press

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar, left, speaks during a news conference as St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch listens Sunday, March 15, 2015, in Clayton, Mo. McCulloch said 20-year-old Jeffrey Williams has been charged with two counts of first-degree assault in the shooting of two St. Louis-area officers. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Ferguson police shooting suspect arrested, charged

By Jim Salter - Associated Press

Retired Marine Corps Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a close military adviser to President Obama, was reportedly the target of a Justice Department criminal investigation into leaks to The New York Times. (Associated Press)

Obama protects generals in leak probes while low-level employees go to jail

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Justice Dept. names 6 cities for program to improve police-community relations

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office with Speaker of the House Boehner, Saturday, August 31, 2013. Vice President Joe Biden listens at right. (credit: White House photo/Pete Souza)

Obama asks appeals court to re-start amnesty

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Police canvass the area as they investigate the scene where two police officers were shot outside the Ferguson Police Department Thursday, March 12, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

2 officers shot in Ferguson, St. Louis County police confirm

By Jim Salter - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2014 file photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. It's easy for Congress to meddle with the District of Columbia's decision to legalize recreational use of marijuana, but taking on the states is a different matter. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Chuck Grassley blasts FBI’s handling of whistleblowers

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson, left, speaks before protesters in front of the Ferguson Police Department, on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)

Ferguson police Chief Tom Jackson resigns after scathing report

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Parole Agent Steve Nakamura uses a flashlight to inspect a GPS locator worn on the ankle of a sex-offender parolee in Rio Linda, Calif., on Aug. 3, 2009. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Sex offenders go under the radar in federal witness protection program: IG

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Protesters block traffic on the street outside the Ferguson, Mo., police department in Ferguson in this March 4, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Ferguson manager is 5th out after DOJ report alleging bias

By Jim Salter - Associated Press

In this July 29, 2012, file photo, protesters demonstrate outside he Anaheim, Calif., Police Department headquarters over a string of recent fatal police shootings in Anaheim. Ferguson, Mo., has become an emblem of the tensions between minorities and police departments nationwide since Darren Wilson, a white officer, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, last summer. A U.S. Justice Department report released the first week of March 2015, cleared Wilson of criminal wrongdoing. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Stuart Palley, File)

Missouri appeals judge appointed to take over Ferguson court

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Sen. Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat, questioned witnesses about sex trafficking and other abuses during a recent hearing on Cuba. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

EDITORIAL: The suspicious Robert Menendez indictment

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on African-American progress and challenges by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency

CAL THOMAS: Fifty years after Selma, progress is remarkable, incomplete

By Cal Thomas

Ferguson Mo., Mayor James W. Knowles reads a statement, Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in Ferguson. The Justice Department cleared a white former Ferguson police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old, but also issued a scathing report calling for sweeping changes in city law enforcement practices it called discriminatory and unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Ferguson mayor vows to hold biased police accountable

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Sen. Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Robert Menendez to face federal corruption charges: report

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks before he participates in a town-hall meeting at Benedict College, Friday, March 6, 2015, in Columbia, S.C., about the importance of community involvement. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama warns Ferguson: Clean up your act or face federal lawsuit

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown Jr., listens to the family attorney during a news conference, Thursday, March 5, 2015, in Dellwood, Mo. Neither McSpadden nor Brown's father, Michael Brown Sr., spoke or took questions. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Michael Brown’s family has good chance to win civil suit against Ferguson PD, lawyer says

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times