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As a former prosecutor, his caseload included terrorism, organized crime and fraud prosecutions

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama plans to nominate James Comey to replace Robert Mueller as FBI director, officials familiar with the nomination process said Wednesday.


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Authorities intercepted two speedboats, sank one and recovered about 13,000 pounds of cocaine

(CNN) -- Authorities intercepted two speedboats -- sinking one -- and recovered about 13,000 pounds of cocaine worth almost $1 billion.
Indeed, that's billion with a B.


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Judge: Some of the evidence could be raised during the trial if proven relevant and admissible

(CNN) -- The judge overseeing the George Zimmerman murder trial handed a series of pretrial victories to the prosecution Tuesday, barring the defense from introducing information about Trayvon Martin at trial, which begins in two weeks.


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Teen charged with attempted aggravated murder for allegedly trying to bomb West Albany High

(CNN) -- An Oregon teen accused of planning to bomb his high school suffers from a rare form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, his family said.


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Koman Willis turned himself in Saturday afternoon

(CNN) -- A career criminal has been charged in the March killing of a 6-month-old Chicago girl, the city's police superintendent said Monday at a news conference.


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Judge Murray Snow agreed with Latino plaintiffs: they were stopped simply because of the color of their skin

A judge ruled Friday that Arpaio's routine handling of people of Latino descent is not tough enforcement of immigration laws but instead amounts to racial and ethnic profiling—stopping people based on the color of their skin.


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The public joins fray with 1.2 million comments so far

Jobs, say hundreds of thousands of people. Pollution, say hundreds of thousands of others.
They say that's what a proposed oil pipeline would bring into the country, as it transports crude from massive deposits in Canadian tar sands to refineries and ports in the United States.

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At the other end, the top brass of federal employees are on track to receive bonuses

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Forced federal spending cuts intended to be equal and across-the-board have lately fallen harder on the nation's poor, sick and elderly.


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Defense seeks to introduce texts and photos of gun and cannabis plant sent by Trayvon Martin

Items taken from Trayvon Martin's cell phone -- including a text-message discussion of drug use and pictures of a gun and marijuana plants -- are among new details released Thursday by attorneys for the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of killing him without provocation 14 months ago.


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Travis Alexanders sister sobs and the judges voice cracks after jurors reveal their verdict

An Arizona judge declared a mistrial in the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial Thursday after a deadlocked jury said it couldn't decide whether to sentence her to death for the murder of her ex-boyfriend.That means a new jury will be chosen.


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