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WASHINGTON (AP) — Five months after she was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as attorney general, Loretta Lynch will finally get a confirmation vote in the Senate.

The United States Senate has approved the nomination of Loretta Lynch for the position of Attorney General.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first Republican-led confirmation hearing of the Obama administration is about to get underway as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers President Barack Obama's nominee for attorney general.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has chosen federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch to be the next attorney general amid a power shift in the Senate.

Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce today that he is retiring.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says the federal prison population has dropped this year by roughly 4,800 inmates, the first decline in decades.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is launching a series of pilot programs to deal with American extremists intent on joining the fighting in countries like Syria and Iraq.

The Associated Press is officially and publicly responding to notification by the United States Department of Justice that the DOJ had secretly obtained the phone records of more than twenty of its journalists.

Utica, NY (WIBX) - A former BP employee has been arrested and charged in connected to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico two years ago.