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In this Tuesday, April 4, 2017, file photo, Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis speaks at a news conference at the department's headquarters in Baltimore, in response to the Department of Justice's request for a 90-day delay of a hearing on its proposed overhaul of the police department. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Cities respond to DOJ threat to withhold crime-fighting funds

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

FILE - This Oct. 10, 2013, file photo, shows an EpiPen epinephrine auto-injector, a Mylan product, in Hendersonville, Texas. Mylan has finalized a $465 million federal agreement settling allegations it overbilled Medicaid for its emergency allergy injectors for a decade, charges brought after rival Sanofi filed a whistleblower lawsuit and tipped off the government. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File)

EpiPen maker finalizes settlement for government overcharges

By LINDA A. JOHNSON - Associated Press

This Oct. 10, 2013, file photo, shows an EpiPen epinephrine auto-injector, a Mylan product, in Hendersonville, Texas. Mylan reports earnings Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File)

EpiPen manufacturer Mylan agrees to $465M settlement with U.S.

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Jeff Sessions compares Miami-Dade, ‘sanctuary’ Chicago homicide rates

By Andrea Noble and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Virginia judge denied bail for James Alex Fields Jr., the suspected driver of a car that rammed into counterprotestors in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday, resulting in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer. (Associated Press)

Judge denies bail to man accused of driving into crowd

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Wheat stands ready for harvest in a field. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

John Duarte to pay $1.1M fine for plowing wheat field without permit

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail shows James Alex Fields Jr., who was charged with second-degree murder and other counts after authorities say he rammed his car into a crowd of protesters Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va., where a white supremacist rally took place. (Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail via AP)

James Fields denied bond, accused of fatally ramming car into crowd in Charlottesville

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

The Rev. Jesse Jackson (left), the Rev. Michael Pfleger and Illinois state Sen. Jacqueline Collins led a Dec. 31 march down Michigan Avenue in Chicago to remember the hundreds of people killed by violence in the city last year. (Associated Press/File)

Violent crime rises in big cities; Chicago leads in homicide rate

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

A man holds a U.S. and a rainbow flag outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 16, 2015, after the court legalized gay marriage nationwide. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Sexual orientation Title VII cases work way toward Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after an white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Justice Dept. opens civil rights investigation of Charlottesville death

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Va. company to pay US $16 million in contract fraud case

Associated Press

The Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington (Associated Press) **FILE**

Trump DOJ makes La. company pay for hiring foreigners over U.S. workers

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Sanctuary cities run afoul of the rule of law

By Andrew P. Napolitano

In this April 7, 2017, file photo, former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks during a conference on policy and blacks at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Former attorney for Loretta Lynch now working for congressional probe of former AG

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Trump administration sides with Ohio on purging voter rolls

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press

White supremacists once again can easily access Stormfront.org, the internet's oldest-operating hate site, after its sudden disappearance last month. (Associated Press/File)

Buster Hernandez, 26, identified in federal sextortion case, thanks to booby-trapped video file

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Lawsuit accuses FBI of violating agent’s free speech rights

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Attorney General Jeff Sessions noted Chicago lawlessness and warned, "It's this simple: Comply with the law, or forgo taxpayer dollars." (Associated Press)

Two ‘sanctuary’ counties prove section 1373 compliance, cleared for federal grants

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) **FILE**

Ivy League schools brace for scrutiny of race in admissions

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, accompanied by, from left, National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director William Evanina, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, on leaks of classified material threatening national security. (AP Andrew Harnik)

Jeff Sessions announces crackdown on leaks: ‘We are taking a stand’

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times