(AP) Md. governor signs tougher gun-control billBy BRIAN WITTEAssociated PressANNAPOLIS, Md.Gov. Martin O’Malley has signed a gun-control measure to give Maryland some of the nation’s tightest gun laws and the National Rifle Association says it plans to challenge the law
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ and KARL RITTERAssociated PressCARACAS, VenezuelaFirst milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities – toilet paper. Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other shortages,
Attorney General Eric Holder may have violated federal law when he did not put his recusal from the secret Associated Press phone records seizure case in writing, Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) suggested during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.
(AP) – Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to The Associated Press before issuing subpoenas for the news
During the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Congressman Hank Johnson said that the Associated Press could be prosecuted under the 1918 Espionage Act for publishing classified information.
During his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said there is nothing in writing verifying he actually recused himself from the Associated Press phone records seizure scandal. “We looked,” Holder said when being questioned
Wednesday morning, Media Matters for America (MMFA) openly sided against the media in favor of the Obama Administration. In what might be a major tipping point against them, the hard-left, Soros-funded, 501 (c)(3) welfare queens released a set of pro-Obama
The journalist group Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has penned a letter of complaint to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder after revelations that the Department of Justice obtained the phone records of some 100 reporters from the Associated
The Associated Press is far from satisfied by the Department of Justice’s initial response regarding the government grabbing months of phone records from the wire service. Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of The Associated Press, sent a sternly worded follow-up
By MARYCLAIRE DALEAssociated PressPHILADELPHIAA Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that the President was unaware of the Department of Justice monitoring Associated Press reporters’ communication until Monday night when the story broke via the AP.
On the May 14 edition of Morning Joe, former Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein said the DOJ phone scandal is a “nuclear event.” Bernstein was on with Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll, who said AP CEO Gary Pruitt has sent
Tuesday at the White House, press secretary Jay Carney explained that he could not comment on the latest reports that the Department of Justice grabbed phone records for reporters and editors at the Associated Press. “On the issue of what
On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder, whose Department of Justice has been the subject of scandals ranging from Fast and Furious to pulling phone records of Associated Press editors and reporters, said that he had “recused” himself last year from
On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder, under fire for his own involvement in a Department of Justice scheme to grab months worth of Associated Press phone records, said that he would open an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service. The
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus called for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation on Tuesday over the Associated Press phone records seizure scandal. “Freedom of the press is an essential right in a free society,” Priebus said in a statement.
On Monday night, after reports surfaced that the Justice Department–and, more specifically, Attorney General Eric Holder–approved subpoenas to obtain the phone records of reporters from the Associated Press, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the White House was shocked to
When the Department of Justice secretly seized phone records for the Associated Press, it was not the first time Attorney General Eric Holder’s Cabinet department used unseemly tactics against journalists. As this reporter uncovered before the election, emails between now-former
I thought the Kermit Gosnell verdict would dominate the news when it came down. Sure, the mainstream media doesn’t want to talk about Gosnell – you can hear the sound of flop-sweat splattering on the walls at NARAL and Planned
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to come clean about his role in the Department of Justice’s decision to seize phone records of the Associated Press secretly. In a Monday evening statement, Grassley said the
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) told Breitbart News he thinks Attorney General Eric Holder needs a refresher course on the U.S. Constitution in the wake of reports that the Department of Justice secretly obtained two months of the Associated Press’s phone records. Gosar
On Monday, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) responded to reports that the Department of Justice had secretly obtained two full months of phone records from the Associated Press, prompting the AP’s President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt to
By ULA ILNYTZKYAssociated PressLOS ANGELESJoyce Brothers, the pop psychologist who pioneered the television advice show in the 1950s and enjoyed a long and prolific career as a syndicated columnist, author, and television and film personality, has died. She was 85.
(AP) Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probeBy MARK SHERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe 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
(AP) – Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general’s report obtained by The Associated Press that seemingly contradicts public statements by the IRS
