Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $480 million to settle the securities class action lawsuit arising from the company’s fake customer account scandal. The lawsuit followed in the wake of allegations that the bank had opened millions of accounts on behalf of customers frequently without...
Six months before the midterm elections, Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign will soon run into a dead zone of sorts. Former prosecutors expect him either to wrap up, or lie low and take no visible steps until after the...
In the 1980s, Congress countered the widespread use of crack cocaine with tougher sentencing guidelines. Three decades later, the emphasis on opioid abuse is on funding research into a public-health crisis and enabling states to deal with its consequences. Lawmakers haven’t reached a consensus on...
In 2016, conservative Nueces County, Tx., elected Mark Gonzalez, a 38-year-old Democrat and self-described “Mexican biker lawyer covered in tattoos,” as district attorney. Gonzalez had never prosecuted a single case: For his entire 10-year career, he specialized in getting accused criminals off the hook, working...
A federal agent shot in the face Friday in Chicago was the fourth law enforcement officer wounded in the past year in an area where warring gangs have been stepping up their firepower, the Chicago Tribune reports. The agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,...
They are the “good guys with guns” the National Rifle Association says are needed to protect students from shooters: a school police officer, a teacher who moonlights in law enforcement, a veteran sheriff. In a span of 48 hours in March, the three were responsible...