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Holder to make case for success of drug sentencing policies

WASHINGTON (AP) — The share of federal drug offenders subject to mandatory minimum sentences that critics call unduly harsh has plunged in the last year,…

Frustrated Republicans taste limits of majority control

WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn’t supposed to be like this for Republicans. A month into their control of both chambers of Congress, they are confronting…

Officer indicted in killing of unarmed man in NYC stairwell

NEW YORK (AP) — A rookie police officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a Brooklyn public housing complex, accidentally killing a man who…

3 sentenced to prison in slaying of Black man in Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Three young White men who admitted they were out hunting Black people to attack when they beat, ran over and killed…

Longtime aide says Obama misled on gay marriage opposition

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of President Barack Obama’s longtime advisers says Obama misled the public for years by claiming he opposed same sex marriage when…

Record-level of criminal exonerations

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black criminal defendants accounted for roughly 46 percent of the 125 known exonerations in 2014, the highest annual number of exonerations recorded…

Justice Thomas objects to court’s signal on gay marriage

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court is inappropriately signaling it intends to clear the way for gay marriage across the nation, Justice Clarence Thomas complained…

Ire over Netanyahu’s speech, but Dems hopes to limit fallout

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Israeli prime minister’s upcoming speech to Congress without President Barack Obama’s blessing has angered Democratic lawmakers, but they see little remedy…

War memorial separates dead by race, divides Southern city

GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Along Main Street in a small South Carolina city, there is war memorial honoring fallen World War I and II soldiers,…

2 Philadelphia officers accused of severely beating man

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two city police officers were arrested Thursday and accused of knocking a man off a scooter and beating him so severely that…

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