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After more than a decade of being investigated by the federal government, baseball’s controversial home run king – Barry Bonds – no longer has a criminal record after the U.S. Justice Department filed a a court document Tuesday saying it will no longer seek...

Lawyers from the office of U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag said in a filing that the USA solicitor general, who determines whether to appeal federal cases to the Supreme Court, decided not to appeal the circuit court decision.

The prosecution of Bonds for obstruction of justice ended quietly with the Justice Department’s one-paragraph court filing announcing that its solicitor general would not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a lower court’s reversal of Bonds’ felony conviction.

Israeli authorities failed to inform parents of their children’s arrest or whereabouts, the New York-based watchdog added, drawing on accounts of several children detained during intense unrest in east Jerusalem and the West Bank late a year ago.

Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed more than 20 people including multiple children in their latest attack on northern Cameroon, easily overwhelming the few soldiers posted at the targeted village, residents said Monday.

Now, Instagram has added the Search tool to Instagram for web via which users can now browse accounts, search for hashtags, locations, and user accounts right from the desktop. This update separates Instagram from other mobile-first apps such as Snapchat that have skipped the...

Users can now search hashtags, profiles and locations on instagram.com in a viewing experience that is beginning to grow much more congruous with the Instagram mobile app where content is still created on. While that sounds simple enough, it would have been nice to have a third...

In a court filing on Tuesday, prosecutors said they would not try to litigate the case in the U.S. Supreme Court.

And according to Tuesday’s filing, the U.S. Solicitor General, who, according to the Mercury News, makes final decisions on whether to appeal cases to a higher court (the U.S. Supreme Court in this instance), decided not to pursue any further Bonds and his appeal.

The decade-long investigation and prosecution of Bonds for obstruction of justice ended quietly Tuesday morning when the DOJ said it would not challenge the reversal of his felony conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Though Major League Baseball’s all-time home-run leader has long since been found guilty of practically everything in the court of public opinion, the U.S. Department of Justice finally dropped its case against Bonds on Tuesday after over a decade’s worth of...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Greek lawmakers began another emergency debate Wednesday on further economic reforms demanded by worldwide creditors in return for a new bailout – a vote that could threaten the survival of the coalition government and trigger fresh fears over...

TrendForce has also lowered the smartphone shipment growth for all of 2015 to 8.2% from the previous forecast of 11.6%, citing the negative global economic outlook for the second half of 2015 and weakening demand.

Bonds played with the Giants from 1993 to 2007 and during that time set the Major League Baseball career home run record of 762, as well as the single-season record of 73 in 2001.

Former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds sits in the stands during the game against the San Diego Padres at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, June 23, 2014. The all-time Major League Baseball home run leader had been convicted of obstruction of justice in...