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Controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona dismissed calls for his resignation, as he denied racial targeting by his office.

The former secretary of state gave a speech on Monday in New York that outlined a progressive economic agenda.

A letter from a whistleblower to U.S. attorney general Loretta Lynch raises questions about the federal prosecutor leading the probe.

A provision that would continue to keep the federal government from using funds to go after medical marijuana laws in the states passed the House on Wednesday, June 3. But the White House may veto it.

The Feds want Provident Funding Associates to set aside $9 million for discrimination victims.

Two days earlier, a police officer was found not guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of an unarmed African-American couple.

JPMorgan and others were penalized a combined $5.7 billion over foreign exchange manipulation. Despite the historic guilty pleas, no individuals were charged.

Four major banks will reportedly enter historic guilty pleas. But when the Justice Department charges institutions, not individuals, paradoxes arise.

Police said Zimmerman did not fire a gun.

Several early media reports indicated that shots had been fired, and police said they had arrested a man with a gun.

William Murphy Jr. said he trusted the Department of Justice and Attorney General Loretta Lynch to investigate Baltimore police.

Federal prosecutors have accused four Brooklyn residents with taking part in a plot to support the Islamic State group abroad.

HSBC has made only halting progress in its ongoing efforts to fall in line on compliance issues, according to a Department of Justice court document filed Wednesday.

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson was a no-show and Mayor James Knowles didn't take questions at a press conference following a damning DOJ report.

“Trayvon would have to be here to tell his story,” Tracy Martin reportedly said Wednesday, after investigators said there was insufficient evidence to charge George Zimmerman for killing his son.

U.S. prosecutors have just 90 days to bring cases against individuals for wrongdoing in the 2008 financial crisis. Here's who could be charged.

It would represent the first time in decades that the largest American banks pleaded guilty to felony misconduct. Since the financial crisis, the only major banks from which U.S. regulators have secured guilty pleas have been foreign.

Timothy DeFoggi chatted with users of an underground online forum about his desire to rape and murder children.

The Justice Department will conduct a "thorough" probe of Eric Garner's death similar to its investigation of Michael Brown's death.

Two Cleveland police officers are on leave in the shooting and death of Tamir E. Rice.

Federal officials conducting a civil rights investigation into the Ferguson police met with residents to hear their concerns about the police.

Nonbanks that make auto loans face stricter supervision under a new rule proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Data show $1 million in campaign donations cuts in half the likelihood of a private equity firm being prosecuted.

Brian Jorgenson, in his capacity as a Microsoft corporate-finance manager, provided confidential information to a day trader.

The international shipping company is looking into an anonymous tip that its employees paid off government officials.

The FBI and Department of Justice have decided not to return George Zimmerman his gun following his acquittal on Saturday.

The Justice Department may soon have to reveal a secret FISC ruling that finds some spy techniques unconstitutional.

Attorney General Eric Holder, in an interview with NPR, once again proved just how competent he is -- not.Responding to the general fury toward his Justice Department, after it was revealed it secretly obtained two months of reporter and editor phone records from The Associated Press, including their home and cell phones, Holder said he is uncertain of how many times information has been seized by government investigators during his four-year tenure.

As the world runs from one man-caused crisis to another, something in our up-is-the-new-down world has to give.