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An internal Justice Department inquiry found that a former Arizona federal prosecutor improperly disclosed information to a reporter related to a botched Mexican gun-trafficking investigation in an attempt to "undermine'' a Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives agent who went public with his criticisms of the gun case.

Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson said Sunday a task force has been formed to find the people behind the burning of five cars on Front Avenue and Broadway in the Historic District early Saturday.

Authorities have revealed the latest details of the ongoing investigation into what caused a fire and explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas last month.

A Texas Public Safety official walks past the site of a housing complex which was destroyed by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion West, near Waco A month of investigations into a fire that triggered a deadly explosion at a Texan fertiliser plant has left authorities none the wiser as to the cause.

In the aftermath of the gut-wrenching massacre of 20 elementary school children and six adult staff members, last December, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in ways big and small Americans' cultural views on guns have remained the same.

Federal agents removed guns from the Sullivan's Island home of banker Christopher Latham today in connection with a protective order issued to his estranged wife, according to one of her attorneys.

While training as a playwright, I was taught that any gun brought onstage must go off.

The CIOs of federal agencies are assessing the full scope of a White House executive order, introduced May 9, that requires agencies to make government data available in open, machine-readable formats.

A Journal Sentinel investigation uncovered mistakes and failures in an undercover sting in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives stolen guns, sensitive documents lost, wrong people charged and a burglary of the sting storefront.

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As the topic of gun control remains a hot topic in the news, Guns Across the Border: How and Why the U.S. Government Smuggled Guns into Mexico documents how the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ran a series of "gun walking" sting operations that failed to stop Mexican gun smuggling cartels and even aided their efforts.

The Augusta County Sheriff's Office got the call about the explosion just before 5 a.m. Thursday.

The Morning News broke the news this morning that officials had narrowed the cause of last month's deadly West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion to one of three things: a golf cart, an electrical short, or criminal activity.

Investigators have completed their investigation at the site of the fertilizer plant explosion in West.

In recent months, we've already seen the first-ever filibuster of a cabinet nominee and a filibuster of a CIA nominee.

While there has been no links to the blast at West Fertilizer Company, a former West paramedic who responded to the call was indicted earlier this week by a federal grand jury on a weapons charge.

A 7 p.m. curfew is still in effect in parts of West, TX where streets resemble a battle zone and a still mysterious blast is to blame.

Federal and state officials say they're poised to announce findings of their investigation into a deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed at least 14 people.

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives investigators have so far found no evidence that a bomb caused last month's deadly explosion at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant, law enforcement officials told NBC News on Wednesday.The news comes ahead of a Thursday press conference at the site in which officials from the ATF will discuss their ... (more)

Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday lashed out at Rep. Darrell Issa , calling his conduct "unacceptable and shameful." In a tense moment at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Holder clashed with the lawmaker who led the successful vote in the House finding the nation's top cop in contempt of Congress.