ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia man who lost his left hand in an Army training accident won a lawsuit Wednesday against the FBI after claiming he was denied a fair chance to become a special agent. Justin Slaby, 30, of ...

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Rep. Elijah Cummings says a suspicious substance at his Baltimore district office has been deemed safe. Cummings says staff arriving at the office Wednesday morning found a putty-like substance on the front door. Police and the FBI tested the material, ...

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WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed James Comey on Monday to become FBI director, elevating the one-time Justice Department official who defied efforts by President George W. Bush’s White House to renew a program that allowed warrantless eavesdropping. Comey was ...

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WASHINGTON — D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry was censured and fined $13,600 by the city’s ethics board on Thursday for accepting cash gifts from two city contractors. As part of a negotiated settlement with the ethics board, the former four-term mayor ...

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has named James Comey to be the new FBI director. Comey was the No. 2 Justice Department official under Republican President George W. Bush. Obama says Comey is a model of “fierce independence and deep ...

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FREDERICK — Frederick County fingerprinting services expect new customers with the passage of a new state gun law, but officials say they are taking a wait-and-see approach before adding resources. The new law, signed into law earlier this month and ...

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WASHINGTON — It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had ...

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FBI and National Archive officials are returning to their rightful owners more than 10,000 important historical documents seized during a massive theft investigation involving a well-known collector of presidential memorabilia. Barry Landau and assistant Jason Savedoff were caught stealing documents ...

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. ...

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MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Police in Nicaragua have detained a U.S. man who was on the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives as a suspect in a child pornography investigation, authorities confirmed Monday. Former school teacher Eric Justin Toth was detained Saturday in ...

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