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The rate at which federal prosecutors sought mandatory minimum prison terms for non-violent drug offenders dropped to record lows in 2014, in what administration officials say represents strong evidence that new sentencing policy is working.

In advance of Attorney General Eric Holder's speech Tuesday at the National Press Club, data compiled by the U.S. Sentencing Commission showed that

The economy would need to be growing at breakneck speed for unemployment to drop to 7.8% from 8.3% in the course of two months. — Imagine a country where challenging the ruling authorities—questioning, say, a piece of data released by central headquarters—would result in mobs of administration sympathizers claiming you should feel "embarrassed" and labeling you a fool, or

The doomsday machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life. Now suppose that machine is buried deep underground, but connected to a computer, which is in turn hooked up to sensors in cities and towns across the United States.

The sensors are designed to sniff out