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Justice Department unveils new efforts to combat hate crimes
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The Justice Department will announce renewed efforts to combat hate crimes across the country Friday, just days after 10 people were killed in a Buffalo supermarket shooting that officials have called a racially mot...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: State Department launches unit to document alleged war crimes
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"No country – no matter how large, how potentially powerful, what types of weapons they may have in their arsenal – can escape accountability for the types of atrocities that we have seen Russia’s forces perpetrate a...
Trump appointed State Department official met with election deniers on January 6
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A top Trump appointee at the US State Department met on January 6, 2021, with two activists who were pushing false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. The meeting took place on the same day that t...
Ohio Department of Transportation vehicle hit by dump truck, causes fiery explosion on interstate
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The crash happened at 7:20 a.m. on Interstate 77 in Green, Ohio, when the dump truck struck the ODOT vehicle, which was not moving on the shoulder of the interstate, according to the Summit County Sheriff's Office. S...
Department of Energy to spend $3 billion on battery production to meet Biden’s electric vehicle goal
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The Department of Energy announced $ 3.1 billion on Monday in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to make more batteries and components in the United States. The funding, according to administration offic...
State Department offers $10 million reward in search for Russian hackers
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The cybercriminals work for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, or the GRU. They are part of the GRU’s Unit 74455 – also known as Sandworm Team, Tele...
Mike Rowe shadows Wilmington, NC police department in next installment of ‘How America Works’
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MIKE ROWE, ‘HOW AMERICA WORKS’ HOST: I was just reminded of some things that I had come to learn over the last couple of years, primarily the unintended consequences that come from talking about a tiny fraction of th...
State agency asks for federal investigation into Grand Rapids Police Department
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Michigan state officials have asked the US Department of Justice to launch a "pattern-or-practice" investigation into the Grand Rapids Police Department after an officer there fatally shot a man during a physical st...
Justice Department settles with protesters who sued over 2020 incident at Lafayette Square
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The Justice Department has reached a settlement to settle four lawsuits by protesters who were forcibly cleared out of Washington's Lafayette Square during a racial justice protest outside the White House in 2020. T...
US State Department orders departure of non-emergency personnel from Shanghai consulate amid Covid-19 restrictions
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Washington The US State Department on Monday ordered the departure of non-emergency US government employees and family members from its Shanghai consulate due to China's strict Covid-19 mitigation measures. Pressu...
State Department unable to provide full account of foreign gifts given to Trump and officials
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The State Department is unable to provide a complete list and accounting of gifts presented to former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence and other officials during the final year of the Trump a...
Putin feeds his people a ‘steady diet of lies and disinformation’: State Department spokesman
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NED PRICE: Public opinion within Russia is notoriously difficult to measure. Russia is essentially a closed society. Vladimir Putin has near-total control over the organs of information, which may explain why it is t...
Department of Education ‘waging war’ on charter schools with new regulations, school choice advocate says
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The rule would tighten requirements on charter schools seeking seed money, like proving that there's a demand for a new school and showing how they would ensure diversity. There would also be restrictions on how much...
Justice Department blocking National Archives from sharing details on Mar-a-Lago boxes with congressional probe
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The Justice Department is blocking the National Archives from sharing details with Congress on 15 boxes of records, including classified information that former President Donald Trump took to Mar-a-Lago after leavin...
US Justice Department unveils charges against Russian oligarch for sanctions violations
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The US Justice Department is charging Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev with sanctions violations, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday, the first criminal charges against an oligarch since Russi...
State Department launches cyberbureau amid concerns over Russia and China’s digital authoritarianism
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The State Department's new cybersecurity bureau formally launched on Monday in an effort to make digital rights issues an intrinsic part of US foreign policy at a time when Russia and China are increasingly trying t...