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Attorney general plans rare appearance before high court

Attorney General Michael Mukasey will rely on his experience dealing with high-profile terrorism trials when he argues a case before the U.S. Supreme Court later this month.

Rally urges hate crimes prosecutions, new AG responds

Thousands of demonstrators encircled Justice Department headquarters in the nation's capital Friday to demand the government crack down harder on hate crimes.

Sources: $4.6 billion settlement in power plant air pollution case

In the largest environmental settlement in Justice Department history, American Electric Power has agreed to install $4.6 billion in equipment to sharply reduce emissions at coal-fired power plants in five states, sources said.

Court rejects $280bn tobacco suit

In a 2-to-1 ruling, a U.S. federal appeals court panel in Washington Friday rejected the federal government's lawsuit seeking as much as $280 billion in past earnings from tobacco companies that allegedly engaged in a criminal enterprise to cover up smoking dangers.

Controversy over Martinez ad in Florida

A former federal agent who appears in a campaign ad for U.S. Senate candidate Mel Martinez helped plan the raid that took Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives' home four year ago.

Ashcroft gets turn before 9/11 panel

President Bush holds a prime-time news conference Tuesday night, his first this year and his third since moving into the White House. His East Room appearance, scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. ET, comes after testimony earlier by John Ashcroft and Janet Reno, two of the most polarizing figures in American politics, before the 9/11 commission.

Probing the memo

As the commission looking into the intelligence failures preceding 9/11 resumes its hearings this week, there will be a new exhibit A under public scrutiny: the supersecret CIA report on al-Qaeda that was given to George W. Bush as part of the President's Daily Brief (PDB) on Aug. 6, 2001, just weeks before the attacks on the U.S.

Fortune: FORTUNE Presents Janet and Bill: A Love Story

The Justice Department scored a resounding victory earlier this month when U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered that Microsoft be split into two companies. Still, questions rem...

Fortune: I'll Tell You Where to Put It Even after the crash of the new economy, there are plenty of good investments.

Throwing Microsoft into the wheels of an economic machine that seemed to be functioning to the benefit of a great number of people, the Feds are on their way to Mr. Greenspan's goal of destroying p...

Fortune: Gates Is Evil; Reno's a Meddler. Whatever. Do We Buy It or Not?

If it weren't for the Justice Department's antitrust division, Microsoft Windows 98 would have been a footnote in the history of the company we love to hate. But the wheels of justice are grinding....

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