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Department of Justice



  • 'The Clock is Ticking': White House under Pressure to Reopen Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases

    The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board was established by Congress in January 2019. Now nominees for the board named by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Society of American Archivists, and the American Bar Association are being "vetted" by the White House, raising concerns about partisan interference.



  • Letters from an American: March 21, 2020

    by Heather Cox Richardson

    Recent stories suggest that those currently in power feel it is their right, and maybe their duty, to run the country in their own interest, ignoring-- or suppressing-- dissent.



  • The Mission to Hunt Nazis Has Become a Race Against Time

    The latest target was a 94-year-old man in Tennessee said to have been a guard at a concentration camp in Germany. “These people are old, and they’re dying,” a prosecutor said of the cases’ urgency.