Obstruction of justice is a crime that requires more than overt acts. It also requires intent.

That principle helps explain special counsel Robert Mueller's decision not to press an obstruction case against President Donald Trump and instead leave it up to the Justice Department.

Attorney General William Barr's initial summary of Mueller's ...Read more

The legalization of recreational marijuana in California left American Indians out in the cold.

Proposition 64, approved by voters in 2016, lets local governments decide whether to allow cannabis dispensaries to operate within their jurisdictions. But it made no provisions for tribes.

As far as the state is concerned, tribes can do whatever ...Read more

The death toll has risen in Mozambique, the country hardest hit by Cyclone Idai, a government minister said Sunday.

Environment Minister Celso Correia said 446 people were confirmed dead, up from 417 a day earlier. As rescue operations continue these numbers may increase, he said.

"We mapped areas at risk and the good news is that we are ...Read more

Of the many outrageous allegations by federal prosecutors in the college cheating scandal, one stands out.

Someone paid $6.5 million to get his or her children into elite schools. But the identity of that parent -- and details about which schools were involved -- remains a mystery nearly two weeks after authorities in Boston filed the charges ...Read more

WASHINGTON ––Democrats demanded Sunday that Attorney General William Barr provide Congress with unclassified access to special counsel Robert Mueller's report and its underlying evidence, saying they would take their demand to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said providing ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Deep in the Otay Mountain Wilderness, there is no wall.

The only boundary between the U.S. and Mexico is a section of barbed-wire fence in a pastoral valley. And miles and miles of treacherous terrain.

It's a territory crisscrossed with steep trails that disappear into tunnels of thick brush, a place looped by violently rutted ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- All southbound lanes of the 5 Freeway in Gorman were reopened Saturday night after a fiery multi-vehicle crash forced the closure of the roads for about four hours, clogging weekend traffic for miles, authorities said.

The freeway was reopened shortly before 7 p.m., according to the California Department of Transportation.

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LOS ANGELES--Tim Johnson hasn't stopped feeling the Bern.

A committed Bernie Sanders acolyte since 2016, Johnson was at a University of California, Los Angeles labor strike on Wednesday to watch the senator make his first California appearance as a 2020 presidential candidate. He's taking part in Sanders rallies this weekend as well.

"It's ...Read more

CHICAGO -- An off-duty Chicago police officer was shot to death Saturday morning and a companion was critically injured when two assailants attacked a parked car on the city's Near North Side.

The men, both 23, were sitting in the car about 3:30 a.m. when the assailants walked up, and one pulled a gun and began firing into the vehicle.

Another...Read more

BEIRUT –– The last territory held by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been liberated, the Pentagon said, hours after a largely Kurdish fighting force in Syria claimed victory.

Saturday's statement by acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan followed one by President Donald Trump. Unlike the president, who's said for months that victory ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General William Barr apparently decided he was not ready Saturday to provide Congress with a summary of the "principal conclusions" from the Russia investigation.

Barr received a confidential report from special counsel Robert Mueller Friday, and he subsequently released a letter to senior members of Congress saying he ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Three months into the Department of Homeland Security's new program that requires asylum-seeking migrants to wait in Mexico until their U.S. immigration hearings, experts said the policy may encourage illegal border crossings.

This past week, migrants rushed the border at least four times at Playas de Tijuana, many of them claiming...Read more

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs failed to modify its electronic systems and lacked an accountable official to oversee implementation of the Forever GI Bill, resulting in a bungled introduction last year that affected thousands of college students, a new report from the agency's inspector general says.

The Forever GI Bill, the widely ...Read more