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Attorney General William Barr defended his office’s response to protests across the country as congressional Democrats accused him of protecting armed white protesters while attacking and arresting unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters.

Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., confronted Attorney General William Barr during a hearing on Tuesday on the conflicting and unequal response by law enforcement to suspects based on their race. “The department is not doing enough to address issues of racism, bias and brutality in law enforcement, when someone who commits mass murder is calmly arrested and served Burger King while...

Boston Police Commissioner William Gross is pushing back against criticism over U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s visit.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says the state’s attorney general will take the lead in any prosecutions in the death of George Floyd.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr says peaceful protests in response to the death of George Floyd are being hijacked by “outside elements”

On a snowy day in March, Chris Wiley was traveling on the Massachusetts Turnpike when he said a tractor-trailer started sliding into his lane of traffic near Charlton. Wiley swerved to avoid a collision, lost control of his vehicle and ended up facing the wrong direction on Interstate 90. Within minutes, a tow truck removed his vehicle from the highway. When Wiley showed up at...

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will invest $500,000 in a fund for diversity and inclusion after an investigation by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey into an alleged racist incident last year, her office announced Tuesday. The Healey’s office has been investigating reports that minority middle school students were subjected to racism by staff and patrons during a field…

The criminal case against a Mexican megachurch leader on charges of child rape and human trafficking was dismissed Tuesday by a California appeals court on procedural grounds.

Involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges have once again been dropped against the Amtrak engineer at the controls during a deadly 2015 derailment in Philadelphia.

Police are responding to what they are describing as an “untimely death” in Pelham, New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office issued a press release shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday saying that officials were responding to an untimely death. The attorney general’s office did not say where the investigation is taking place. No further information was immediately...

A Maine man was shot and injured Tuesday night in a confrontation with a state trooper outside his home in Thorndike. State police said Eric Fitzpatrick, 33, was shot twice by a trooper who was called to the home on Ward Hill Road at about 11 p.m. because of a domestic disturbance.

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Hours after Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax again denied two claims of sexual assault, both women accusing him said they would be willing to testify at a possible impeachment hearing as the Virginia Democrat faces calls to resign and a threat of impeachment.

Democrats’ calls for an investigation into sex assault claims against Virginia’s Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax dissolved into demands for resignation and threats of impeachment after a second woman publicly accused him.

Virginians are split over whether Gov. Ralph Northam should resign over a photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page showing people in blackface and a Ku Klux Klan robe, a new Washington Post-Schar poll shows.

Virginia’s attorney general is the latest of the top elected officials in the state to face a scandal. He said Wednesday that he once wore blackface. News4’s Julie Carey has the latest details from Richmond on Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and Attorney General Mark Herring.

Thousands more migrant families may have been separated than the government initially reported, a watchdog group said, possibly due to ongoing problems keeping track of children.

British lawmakers rejected a Brexit deal put forth by British Prime Minister Theresa May by a record margin on Jan. 15, with 432 MPs voting against her deal at the House of Commons.

Five people have been arrested in connection with a sex trafficking operation that ran in multiple cities in the Boston area, according to the state Attorney General Maura Healey.

The owner of a Massachusetts farm and the 26 tenants who rent space on the property have been indicted on multiple animal cruelty charges after authorities say they found more than 1,400 animals in various levels of distress, the state’s attorney general announced Friday.