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Jessie Liu, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Jessie Liu tapped to be associate attorney general by Trump

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Attorney General William Barr speaks to the National Association of Attorneys General, Monday, March 4, 2019, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Attorney general won’t recuse from overseeing Mueller probe

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

In this Saturday, July 8, 2017, file photo, White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, right, talks to U.S. President Donald Trump prior to a working session at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Trump pressured Gary Cohn to block AT&T-Time Warner merger: Report

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2019, in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, March 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Sanctuary cities get federal funds despite Trump administration threats

By Wilson Ring - Associated Press

In this undated photo, Tamera Bearcomesout cries while holding a portrait of her missing daughter Shacaiah Harding, in Montana. Native American women go missing at a vastly disproportionate rate than the general population in Montana. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)

Native women make up high number of missing person reports

By SAM WILSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2018 file photo, a banner to welcome immigrants is shown through a fisheye lens over the main entrance to the Denver City and County Building. The U.S. Justice Department told The Associated Press at the end of February 2019 that 28 jurisdictions, including Denver, that were targeted in 2017 over what it considered &quot;sanctuary&quot; policies have been cleared for law enforcement grant funding. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

‘Sanctuary’ cities are getting their grants despite threats

By WILSON RING - Associated Press

In this June 21, 2018, file photo, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump and governors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Congressional Democrats are trying to increase pressure on Acosta over his handling of a secret plea deal with a wealthy financier accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. A group of House Democrats is asking the Justice Department to reopen the deal with Jeffrey Epstein. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)

Dems try to turn up heat on Acosta over sex abuse plea deal

By CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

FILE- In this Jan. 29, 2019, file photo, Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her home to attend a court appearance in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canada said Friday, March 1, 2019, it will allow the U.S. extradition case against Wanzhou to proceed. She is due in court on March 6, at which time a date for her extradition hearing will be set. Meng is wanted in the U.S. on fraud charges that she misled banks about the company's business dealings in Iran. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canada allows extradition case against Huawei CFO to proceed

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Michael Cohen, right, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, walks out after testifying to the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. Walking with Cohen is his attorney Lanny Davis, left. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

Clinton-Obama figures exposed as instigators in Trump-Russia probe during Cohen hearing

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Editorials from around New York

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2019, file photo, then-Attorney General nominee William Barr testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Barr has been attorney general for just one week but is on the cusp of staring down what will almost certainly be the most consequential decision of his long career: how much of the special counsel’s findings to make public. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Mueller report looming, new attorney general in hot seat

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

In this June 21, 2017, file photo, special counsel Robert Mueller departs after a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Waiting for final Mueller report? It may be short on detail

By CHAD DAY and ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

Lawyer: Panhandler banned from city despite 2014 DOJ finding

Associated Press

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe pauses during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 7, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Donald Trump says Andrew McCabe was ‘caught’ plotting to remove him from office

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration guns used by criminals by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

How criminals get illegal guns from other criminals

By Paul Davis

Feds, Connecticut reach deal on identifying voters who died

Associated Press

US court: Feds can’t withhold funds from sanctuary cities

Associated Press

In this Jan. 29, 2019 photo, Attorney General nominee William Barr, right, meets with Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Miss., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in Hawley's office in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

William Barr sworn in for 2nd stint as US attorney general

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

In this May 30, 2017 photo, a 3D printer prints a piece of Juan Pablo Pelaez's prosthetic arm in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Eric Gerard McGinnis sentenced for using 3D printer to build gun, violating protective order

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2017, during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on major threats facing the U.S. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Andrew McCabe reveals that he opened obstruction of justice probe against Donald Trump

By Gabriella Muñoz and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times