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Andrea Noble

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Andrea Noble was a crime and public safety reporter for The Washington Times.

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In this file photo taken Aug. 18, 2014, police are in riot gear work to disperse a crowd of protesters in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Groups seek moratorium on military surplus program

A coalition of civil rights groups is asking Congress to implement a moratorium on a controversial program that provides surplus military equipment to local police departments until lawmakers can improve oversight of the program.

September 13, 2017
Eric Dreiband is President Trump's nominee to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Democrats asked how Mr. Dreiband would handle hate crime investigations. (Associated Press)

Eric Dreiband defends his record to Senate Judiciary Committee

President Trump's nominee to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division promised Congress on Wednesday that he is committed to prosecuting violations of the Voting Rights Act, and called voters' access to the ballot "critically important."

September 6, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions makes a statement at the Justice Department in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, on President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program. President Donald Trump's administration will "wind down" a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared Tuesday, calling the Obama administration's program "an unconstitutional exercise of authority." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

House intel chair threatens Jeff Sessions, FBI’s Wray over Trump dossier

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is threatening to drag the attorney general and FBI director before the committee next week if the Justice Department fails to turn over documents related to a salacious dossier of President Trump's supposed activities in Russia.

September 6, 2017
A woman holds up a sign that reads "Defend DACA Defend TPS" during a rally supporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. TPS stands for "Temporary Protected Status." A plan President Donald Trump is expected to announce Tuesday for young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children was embraced by some top Republicans on Monday and denounced by others as the beginning of a "civil war" within the party. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump to phase out Dreamers program

The Trump administration on Tuesday declared the Obama-era DACA program unconstitutional and ordered a phaseout, giving Congress six months to devise a permanent solution for 800,000 young adult illegal immigrant Dreamers who could be at risk of deportation.

September 5, 2017
Russia is a main focus of congressional committee investigations. Democrats have focused on suspected Kremlin links with the Trump campaign and well-documented hacking efforts, and investigators have taken interest in a dossier on President Trump. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump, Russia investigations return with Congress

The progress congressional investigators have made this summer comes into sharp focus this week as House and Senate committees return to work to ratchet up the legal and political clash into any possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin -- and whether Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's allies tried to falsely fan the story.

September 4, 2017
The Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington (Associated Press) **FILE**

Eric Dreiband, Justice Department nominee, opposed by civil rights groups

The Senate Judiciary Committee's decision to schedule a nomination hearing for a key Justice Department position next week amid a panel of federal judgeship nominees has set off a wave of pushback from civil rights groups who oppose the candidate and believe he will not be fully vetted in the packed setting.

August 31, 2017
Under a proposed agreement, sheriffs would be acting on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which would pay to have detainees kept until federal officers can get them. (Associated Press/File)

Sheriffs near illegal immigrant detainer agreement

The country's sheriffs are nearing an agreement with the federal Department of Homeland Security that would let them act as contractors to hold illegal immigrants in jail for pickup, hoping they have found a way to handle the increasingly tricky issue of immigration detention requests.

August 30, 2017