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Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill on April 18, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Holder vs. Wolf: Furlough-Free, not Fight-Free
The good news today for Justice Department employees? Lawmakers and Attorney General Eric Holder have agreed on a plan to avoid furloughs for the remainder of the fiscal year. The bad news? Holder and one of the most powerful of...
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Attorney General Eric Holder in Washington, DC.
Holder Willing to Hold Pay, if Needed
Attorney General Eric Holder looks like he’s ready to follow President Barack Obama’s lead on sequestration. Holder, in an interview today on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, said the president did the right thing when he announced yesterday that he...
Read more »Landmark Ruling: Venue for Budget Talk
In Washington, even the golden anniversary of a landmark court decision marks an occasion to rail about the budget cuts that are hitting federal agencies. Attorney General Eric Holder did just that today, using the 50th anniversary of Gideon Vs....
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A tour guide leads tourists in front of the White House.
White House Tours: Senator’s Solution, Raid TSA Uniform Fund
With the decision to halt White House tours in the wake of the across-the-board budget cuts drawing criticism from all sides, one Republican senator is eyeing a solution to the problem. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, has proposed taking...
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Michael Martinez, airframe and power plant mechanic with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., inspects an MQ-9 Reaper during a pre-flight check at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada.
Holder: U.S. Drone Strikes Possible
The targeted killing program that has become a staple of U.S. action abroad has never crossed inside U.S. borders, according to Attorney General Eric Holder. Could there conceivably be a time where drones are ordered to attack U.S. citizens inside...
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Attorney General Eric Holder during a news conference at the Justice Department in this file photo.
Holder to Congress: No Respect
Attorney General Eric Holder has a message for the Republicans and Democrats who voted to hold him in contempt in 2012: You get no respect. Holder, who has never made a secret of his displeasure with the 255 lawmakers who...
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Law enforcement capture marijuana being smuggled into the United States from Mexico in Tucson, Arizona, in this file photo.
White House Budget-Cutting Lesson: Try Cutting 8.2 Percent from Zero
This is the art, in Washington, of cutting an agency that doesn’t exist: In all the warnings of the consequences of looming budget cuts, the White House budget office has noted one program targeted for cuts — an office that...
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Eric Holder, U.S. attorney general, listens to a question during a news conference in Washington on Feb. 5, 2013.
Top Holder Aide to Leave Justice for Axelrod Firm
A top aide to Attorney Eric Holder will depart next month to join the public relations firm co-founded by one of President Barack Obama’s closest advisors, political strategist David Axelrod. Tracy Schmaler, head of the Justice Department’s public affairs operation, will...
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Oprah Winfrey speaks with Lance Armstrong during an interview regarding the controversy surrounding his cycling career on Jan. 14, 2013 in Austin, Texas.
Armstrong’s Confessions Stir No Interest from Federal Prosecutor
After weeks of public lashings and millions in lost sponsorship deals, Lance Armstrong finally received a shred of good news today. While Armstrong’s primetime television doping confession may have changed how people feel about the cancer-surviving former cycling champion, one...
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Gen. Davis Petraeus with biographer Paula Broadwell, co-author of 'All In: The Education of General David Petraeus' on July 13, 2011.
Broadwell: No Cyber-Stalking Charge
Paula Broadwell, the biographer and mistress of former CIA Director David Petraeus, will not face charges for cyber-stalking, according to federal prosecutors. In a Dec. 14 letter to Broadwell’s lawyer, U.S. Attorney Robert O’Neill advised the West Point graduate that...
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