Federal agents and local police detained a man in Logan, Utah, in connection with letters sent to the Pentagon that initially were believed to contain the deadly poison ricin, as well as with a letter sent to the White House, reports the Wall Street Journal....
Web and computer accessibility refers to the practice of removing barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to websites and computer systems by people with disabilities. This month we asked members of the Legal Technology Resource Center to give some insight on best practices when...
Before a friendly audience full of Utah police officers, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions hailed a record-breaking number of federal prosecutions in violent crime and promised that the renewed emphasis on aggressive prosecutions would continue, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Sessions cited declining crime figures...
The Justice Department says seven Russian military spies were indicted on cyber hacking charges linked to the leaking of Olympic athletes’ drug-test data in an attempt to undermine international efforts to expose Russian doping, the Washington Post reports. Four officers of Russia’ GRU military intelligence...
One-third of young adults in Chicago neighborhoods with high rates of gun violence told interviewers that they had carried a gun, almost all of them illegally, found a new report by the Urban Institute. In a project funded by the Joyce Foundation, the institute and local...
The U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has altered messaging on its website in ways that indicate a shift toward a more punitive approach to juvenile justice under the Trump administration, according to a new report by the Sunlight Foundation’s...