John Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, announces a law enforcement case involving China in November 2018. The Justice Department is prosecuting more alleged cybercrime cases. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption toggle caption Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP John Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, announces a law enforcement case involving China in November 2018.…
The U.S. Department of Justice building is pictured in Washington, U.S., March 21, 2019.Leah Millis | ReutersWASHINGTON — The Department of Justice on Tuesday accused two Chinese nationals, who it said were working on behalf of the Chinese government, of stealing trade secrets and hacking into computer systems of firms working on the Covid-19 vaccine.According to…
When Paul L. Howard Jr., locked in a tight re-election bid for Fulton County district attorney, announced criminal charges in Rayshard Brooks’s death, some said he was tainted by politics.District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr. of Fulton County, Ga., faces a runoff election in August. This month he charged the Atlanta police officer who fatally…
Gov. Gavin Newsom. | Jeff Chiu/AP Photo OAKLAND — Florida is shutting down all bars. Texas is doing the same — and imposing a host of new restrictions. Arizona is in a state of crisis as the coronavirus spreads at a new and alarming rate. But in California, which is shattering single-day records for new…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…