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WASHINGTON – The number of criminal cases opened by the FBI (search) has dropped by nearly half since 2000, a reflection of the bureau’s shift toward stopping terrorist attacks, the Justice Department’s inspector general said Monday. The decline was steepest in drug investigations and extended to organized crime, bank robberies, …

LOS ANGELES – Newly released records of sex abuse claims against 126 priests that are at the core of hundreds of lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles show that church officials for decades moved accused priests between counseling and new assignments. Attorneys for 500 alleged victims and the Roman …

UNITED NATIONS – The chief investigator into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri (search) urged Syria Tuesday to improve its cooperation with his team to help “fill in the gaps” about who planned and carried out the massive bombing in February. Washington and Paris quickly joined forces …