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Former National Security Agency contractor Harold T. Martin III plans to plead guilty to willfully retaining national defense information.

Instead of the previous lenient-federal-enforcement policy, Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ new stance will instead let federal prosecutors where marijuana is legal decide how aggressively to enforce longstanding federal law prohibiting it.

Sessions was facing a deadline. The vacancies had been temporarily filled by prosecutors who are permitted to serve in that position for just 300 days.

Dr. Salomon Melgen’s attorneys said he may have wrongly billed Medicare for a covered treatment so that he could be paid for an experimental treatment that wasn’t covered, but patients benefited, meaning Medicare’s goal of providing care to seniors was met and it suffered no loss.

The White House said Friday newly revealed FBI records show there is “extreme bias” against President Donald Trump among senior leadership at the FBI. The accusation came hours before Trump was scheduled to speak at the FBI training academy in Quantico, Virginia.

A Louisiana private investigator pleaded guilty on Monday to misusing Donald Trump’s Social Security number in repeated attempts to access the president’s federal tax information before his election last year.

Of the 2,502 convictions between 2015 and 2016, the Defense Department failed to provide fingerprints in 601 cases.

Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday for Jordan Hamlett’s federal trial, but a filing from the court says it must be delayed due to an “unforeseen conflict with the court.” The new trial date is Dec. 11.

The shifting explanations for why President Donald Trump fired national security adviser Michael Flynn have revived questions about whether the president may have obstructed an ongoing investigation of potential contacts between his campaign and Russia.