Masood Farivar is a Senior Analyst in VOA’s South and Central Asia Division.
This story is part of our new Special Report: US Midterms 2018
From Florida to California, Democratic candidates for Congress are campaigning on gun control in the midterm elections. They’re betting that growing public support for tighter gun laws in the wake of recent mass shootings will help them win votes. Masood Farivar reports on changing voter attitudes in the current election cycle.
With Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hanging in the balance, bench with eight ideologically divided justices readies to take on big cases
Media reports suggested deputy attorney general was expecting to be fired
A newspaper report last week said Rosenstein discussed removing Trump from office
Attorney General Sessions credits Trump administration policies for the decline
Justice Department has stepped up enforcement of foreign agents registration act
At issue is a report released in January by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security that said three in four individuals convicted of international terrorism-related charges since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were foreign born
US is among only seven countries that actively enforce anti-foreign bribery laws, according to new report by Transparency International
Prosecutors say Park Jin Hyok is a member of the Lazarus Group, a government-backed hacking team
Civil rights advocates hope conviction of a Dallas police officer this week will lead to nationwide reforms
Judge threatened to hold attorney general and homeland security secretary in contempt of court
Preliminary police data show hate crimes fell nearly 15 percent in six major American cities
Director Christopher Wray set up task force last November as part of broader government effort to counter foreign influence operations and to prevent a repeat of Russian meddling in the 2018 and 2020 elections
Prosecutors called multiple witnesses to testify about the former Trump campaign chairman's alleged financial crimes
Authorities identified alleged hackers as Dmytro Fedorov, Fedir Hladyr and Andrii Kolpakov of the cybercrime group FIN7
Prosecutors, however, describe former Trump campaign chairman as a tax cheat
Paul Manafort, 69, is on trial for tax and bank fraud charges related to his political consulting and lobbying work for politicians in Ukraine
Paul Manafort goes on trial Tuesday in Alexandria, Virginia, one of two criminal cases brought against him by special counsel Robert Mueller
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