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Maura Healey
BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said Tuesday she plans to sue President Donald Trump's administration over plans to reintroduce a citizenship question to the 2020 federal census. "The Census is supposed to count everyone," Healey said in a Twitter post Tuesday morning. "This is
transgender
BOSTON — After a virtual marathon of proposed amendments, moral platitudes and the occasional outburst from the gallery by supporters and opponents alike, the state House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would ensure access to the public bathroom or changing room of choice for transgender people. Wednesday's
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Justice Department
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Students often do not know how to report sexual assault and sexual harassment at the University of New Mexico or where to turn for help in a broken system that violates federal law, the U.S. Justice Department said Friday. The department, which launched its investigation
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WASHINGTON – Former Attorney General Eric Holder, President Barack Obama's pick to run the Justice Department, played a crucial role in an effort to cover up the government's "Fast and Furious" Mexican gun trafficking scandal, a congressional investigative panel said Thursday. "Senior Justice Department
Justice Department
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft sued the U.S. government for demanding access to user emails or online files in secret, saying a provision of a 1986 law that authorities use for such undisclosed searches is unconstitutional. The lawsuit is the latest clash over privacy rights in the digital age. Law
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he believes his former secretary of state did not intentionally endanger national security in her handling of classified information. But he also says he's not trying to influence his administration's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. The
Justice Department
WASHINGTON (AP) — Goldman Sachs agreed to pay about $5 billion to settle U.S. claims the Wall Street bank misled investors in sales of mortgage-backed securities that helped create the 2007-2009 financial crisis, the Justice Department announced Monday. The $5.06 billion deal resolves state and federal probes into the
Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will have to decide whether Hillary Clinton or any of her subordinates should face legal consequences for her use of a private email server and her handling of sensitive government information, a decision whose timing is fraught with serious political repercussions. Even though Attorney General
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