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Law enforcement and technology companies at odds over encryption and other issues of digital privacy need to have an “open dialogue” to try to resolve their differences, Attorney General Loretta Lynch is asserting. In remarks prepared for the RSA Conference ...

Can the FBI force a company like Apple to extract data from a customer’s smartphone? In the fight over an iPhone used by an extremist killer in San Bernardino, some legal experts say Congress has never explicitly granted that power. ...

Watching the fight unfold between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans over who should choose the next Supreme Court justice, Michael A. Bowden got angry at what he saw at the latest affront to the first black president. And then ...

The Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to rule that a Philadelphia district attorney-turned-state high court judge should not have taken part in the case of a prison inmate whose death-penalty prosecution he had personally approved nearly 30 years earlier. The ...

  A Jackson County jury awarded a former Kansas City Public Schools secretary $270,000 in damages after finding school officials retaliated against her after she filed a religious discrimination complaint. The jury found KCPS wasn’t liable for Allama Hafiz’s discrimination ...

Justice Clarence Thomas stunned lawyers, reporters and others at the Supreme Court on Monday when he posed questions during an oral argument for the first time in 10 years. It was the second week the court has heard arguments since the ...

The Supreme Court turned away an appeal from three former NFL players who challenged a $42 million settlement between the league and nearly 25,000 former players over the NFL’s use of player images in film footage. The justices on Monday let ...

A Missouri lawmaker’s proposal to undo the 5-year-old merger of the state’s Highway Patrol and Water Patrol is being applauded by local officials who say law enforcement presence on the state’s waterways has been drastically reduced since the 2011 move. ...

Missouri’s Republican candidates for governor on Saturday said state and university leaders did a poor job handling unrest in Ferguson and at the University of Missouri. Speaking during the GOP annual conference, the four candidates slammed what they described as ...

Defense attorneys for a man charged in the death a 12-year-old Missouri girl are fighting against a possible death sentence even before the man goes on trial. A circuit judge heard testimony Friday on motions challenging the prosecution’s notice of ...

Missouri’s two Republican candidates for attorney general cited similar policy stances but differences in experience on Saturday during their first public forum in the race. Josh Hawley, and associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, and state ...