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The Google sign is shown over an entrance to the company's new building in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine and the lucrative digital services hatched by its unwavering status as the internet’s main gateway. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Justice Department pushes ahead with antitrust case against Google, questions ex-employee on deals

By Paul Wiseman - Associated Press

FILE - A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, Oct. 29, 2018. Robert Bowers, the man who killed 11 congregants at the Pittsburgh synagogue, was formally sentenced to death on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023, one day after a jury determined that capital punishment was appropriate for the perpetrator of the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

White supremacist accused of threatening jury, witnesses in trial of Pittsburgh synagogue gunman

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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland makes a point as he speaks to members of the house of delegates of the American Bar Association at the group's annual meeting Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Justice Department helping Ukraine in war crimes investigations, Attorney General Garland says

By Lindsay Whitehurst and Nicholas Riccardi - Associated Press

U.S. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division speaks, June 1, 2023, in Jackson, Miss. On Wednesday, July 12, the Justice Department filed court papers challenging a Mississippi law that authorizes the appointment of some judges in Jackson and Hinds County, which are majority-Black. Most judges in Mississippi are elected, and Clarke said the appointment of judges discriminates against Black residents. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi discriminates against Black residents with appointed judges, Justice Department says

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Kathleen Evenhouse, of Pella, Iowa, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in a coffee shop in Pella, Iowa, on Thursday, June 15, 2023. Evenhouse discussed what she views as a politically motivated Justice Department, in light of former President Donald Trump’s indictment. “I think we’re playing a game as a country,” the 72-year-old author said. (AP Photo/Thomas Beaumont)

Some Republicans are angry about Trump’s prosecution yet ready to vote for someone else in 2024

By Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press

E. Jean Carroll, center, walks out of Manhattan federal court, Tuesday, May 9, 2023, in New York. In a written submission Thursday, June 8, 2023, lawyers for Donald Trump say a $5 million jury award for his sexual abuse and defamation of columnist E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room, in 1996, should be slashed to less than $1 million. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Judge lets columnist amend defamation claim with over $10 million demand for damages from Trump

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

New Orleans Police Capt. Michelle Woodfork speaks as the new interim police superintendent during a news conference at New Orleans City Hall, Dec. 20, 2022. Unjustified use of force, dangerous vehicle pursuits and racially biased policing continue to be problems for the New Orleans Police Department, the U.S. Justice Department said in a Friday, April 7, 2023, court filing, opposing the city's move to terminate a decade-old court-backed reform agreement. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)

U.S.: Unjustified force, bias still plague New Orleans police

By Kevin McGill - Associated Press

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, left, appears before the Kosovo Tribunal as he defends himself against charges including murder, torture and persecution allegedly committed during his country's war for independence from Serbia in the Hague, Monday, April 3, 2023. The trial of Kosovo's ex-president and three other former high-ranking members of the Kosovo Liberation Army charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity opens Monday. (Koen van Weel/Pool via AP)

‘Nobody is above the law’: Kosovo ex-president’s trial opens

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Andrew and Lauren Hackney talk with their lawyer after a supervised visit with their 1-year-old daughter in Oakdale, Pa., on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. The Hackneys’ daughter was taken from their custody at 8 months old when the couple brought her to the children's hospital in Pittsburgh after having difficulty feeding her. They believe hospital staff alerted the Allegheny County Department of Human Services because the baby was severely dehydrated and malnourished. Over a year later, they continue to fight to regain custody of their child. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Not magic: Opaque AI tool may flag parents with disabilities

By Sally Ho and Garance Burke - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Saturday, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump invited to testify before N.Y. grand jury, lawyer says

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Police and protesters converge during a demonstration, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

After Breonna Taylor shooting, feds find pattern of violations

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FILE - An Abbott Laboratories manufacturing plant is shown in Sturgis, Mich., on Sept. 23, 2010. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the infant formula plant that was shut down for months in 2022 due to contamination, the company confirmed in January 2023. The factory’s closure in February 2022 was a key cause of a nationwide baby formula shortage that forced parents to seek formula from food banks, friends and doctor’s offices. Production restarted in June. (Brandon Watson/Sturgis Journal via AP, File)

Justice Department investigating Abbott baby formula plant

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FILE - Early voters line up to cast their ballots inside the South Regional Library polling location in Durham, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. After receiving more than a dozen reports of conduct violations by party-appointed poll watchers during the May primaries in North Carolina, the state elections board tightened regulations for precinct observers on Tuesday, Au. 16, 2022, to prevent partisan interference in the November general election. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Poll observers are essential to honest elections

By Hans von Spakovsky

FILE - In this image from the body camera of Louisiana State Police Trooper Dakota DeMoss, his colleagues, Kory York, center left, and Chris Hollingsworth, center right, hold up Ronald Greene before paramedics arrived on May 10, 2019, outside of Monroe, La. No longer waiting for a federal investigation, state prosecutor Union Parish District Attorney John Belton says he intends to pursue his own case against the Louisiana troopers involved in the deadly 2019 arrest of Greene. (Louisiana State Police via AP, File, File)

Justice Department opens probe into Louisiana State Police

By Jim Mustian and Jake Bleiberg - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris marches on the Edmund Pettus Bridge after speaking in Selma, Ala., on the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," a landmark event of the civil rights movement, Sunday, March 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Kamala Harris marks ‘Bloody Sunday’ anniversary in Selma

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Canadians released after Huawei CFO resolves U.S. charges

By Eric Tucker, Jim Mustian and Rob Gillies - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021 file photo file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares to board a helicopter after announcing his resignation in New York. Sexual harassment allegations cost Cuomo his job. Now, many want to see him answer for a scandal that cut to the heart of his reputation as a pandemic hero and had life-and-death consequences — his handling of outbreaks in nursing homes. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Cuomo exit isn’t stopping push for answers on nursing homes

By Matt Sedensky - Associated Press

Refineries to pay $5.5M for Lake Charles-area contamination

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FILE - In this June 15, 2020, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo removes a mask as he holds a news conference in Tarrytown, N.Y. Cuomo's office said it won't reveal what it told the U.S. Justice Department about COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes, partly because doing so would be an &quot;invasion of personal privacy.&quot; (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

NY won’t say what it told DOJ about nursing home outbreaks

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 18, 2014, file photo, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite speaks during a news conference on the results of an international operation involving an underground child pornography website in Washington. Amid a whistleblower letter unsealed in April 2021, Polite, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal division, is facing new scrutiny over a plea deal he brokered with Louisiana district attorney Harry Morel who was accused of coercing sexual favors from as many as two dozen women. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Biden pick for key DOJ job criticized over deal in sex case

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press