White House blocks release of Bidenโs special counsel interview audio, says GOP is being political
Attorney General Merrick Garland says releasing audio of a special counselโs interview with President Joe Biden over his handling of classified documents could jeopardize future sensitive and high-profile investigations.
Biden signs bill extending a key US surveillance program after divisions nearly forced it to lapse
President Joe Biden has signed legislation reauthorizing a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americansโ data nearly forced the statute to lapse.
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Alabama's congressional primary runoffs
Voters in a new Alabama congressional district at the center of an ongoing legal and political dispute will return to the polls Tuesday to select the nominees in a U.S. House contest that could help decide control of the narrowly divided chamber this November.
Justice Department blasts GOP effort to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt over Biden audio
The Justice Department is blasting Republicansโ effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt over his refusal to turn over unredacted materials related to the special counsel probe into President Joe Bidenโs handling of classified documents.
Republicans threaten to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt over Biden documents case
House Republicans are threatening to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if he does not turn over unredacted materials related to the special counsel probe into President Joe Bidenโs handling of classified documents.
Biden's legal team went to Justice Dept. over what they viewed as unnecessary digs at his memory
President Joe Bidenโs personal attorney said Sunday that they went to both the special counsel and the attorney general to register concerns over what they viewed to be pejorative and unnecessary digs at the presidentโs memory.
Harris slams 'politically motivated' report as Biden to name task force to protect classified docs
Vice President Kamala Harris is slamming the special counsel's report into President Joe Bidenโs mishandling of classified documents that raised questions about his memory, calling it โpolitically motivatedโ and โgratuitous.โ.
Biden wonโt call for redactions in special counsel report on classified documents handling
A special counsel report has found evidence that President Joe Biden โwillfullyโ retained and shared highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan.
Special counsel investigating Biden's handling of classified documents has completed probe, AG says
Attorney General Merrick Garland says the Justice Department special counsel investigating President Joe Bidenโs handling of classified documents has completed his inquiry and a report is expected to be made public soon.
The police response to the Uvalde shooting was riddled with failures, a new DOJ report says
The Justice Department says police officials who responded to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, โdemonstrated no urgencyโ in setting up a command post and failed to treat the killings as an active shooter situation.
Judge in Trump's DC election case is targeted by fake emergency call in latest high-profile swatting
A home owned by the judge overseeing the federal election subversion case against former president Donald Trump was targeted by a fake emergency call Sunday night, the latest in a spate of similar false swatting reports at the homes of public officials.
Justice Dept. accuses 2 political operatives of hiding foreign lobbying during Trump administration
Newly unsealed Justice Department court records say two well-connected political consultants provided false information about lobbying work on behalf of a wealthy Persian Gulf country during the Trump administration.
Voting experts warn of 'serious threats' for 2024 from election equipment software breaches
Election security experts and computer scientists say an effort to access voting system software in several states and provide it to allies of Donald Trump as they sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election poses โserious threatsโ ahead of next yearโs presidential contest.
Ameris Bank accused of โredliningโ Black, Hispanic Florida residents, settles with Justice Dept.
Georgia-based Ameris Bank has been accused by the Department of Justice of systematically denying and discouraging home loans and other credit to those living in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Jacksonville.
Prosecutors are appealing length of prison sentences for Proud Boys leaders convicted of Jan. 6 plot
An attorney for ex-Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio says his defense team will review federal prosecutorsโ reasoning for appealing his 22-year prison sentence in the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
Why the power of a US attorney has become a flashpoint in the Hunter Biden case
House Republicans have grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland about the Justice Department investigation of Hunter Biden in a contentious hearing that delved into aspects of the criminal justice system that typically play out long before the case enters a public courtroom.
Justice Department announces charges against hundreds of alleged COVID-19 fraudsters
Hundreds of people have been charged with the theft of more than $830 million in COVID-19 emergency aid following a nationwide operation conducted by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Prosecutors in the Hunter Biden case deny defense push to keep gun charge agreement in place
A legal showdown over the derailed plea deal for Hunter Biden is continuing as prosecutors assert that an agreement on a gun charge is dead along with the rest of the deal as the case makes a major shift into a special counsel investigation.
Hunter Biden's lawyers say gun portion of plea deal remains valid after special counsel announcement
Hunter Bidenโs attorneys are pushing to keep part of a plea deal they reached with the prosecutor whose new status as special counsel has intensified the tax investigation into the presidentโs son.
How Fani Willis oversaw what might be the most sprawling legal case against Donald Trump
Just one month after Donald Trumpโs January 2021 phone call to suggest Georgiaโs secretary of state could overturn his election loss, district attorney Fani Willis announced she was looking into possibly illegal โattempts to influenceโ the results.
Utah man killed after threats against Biden believed government was corrupt and overreaching
Family members of an armed Utah man who was killed by FBI agents after making threats against President Joe Biden are describing him as a gun enthusiast who was worried about โa corrupt and overreaching government.โ.
Jan. 6 charges against Trump would add to his mounting legal peril as he campaigns for 2024
Already facing criminal cases in New York and Florida, former President Donald Trump is in increasing legal peril as investigations into his efforts to cling to power after his election loss appear to be coming to a head.
Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigations involving Trump have cost more than $9 million
Special Counsel Jack Smithโs investigations of former President Donald Trumpโs retention of classified records and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election have cost more than $9 million over the first several months.
1st US charges against China-based companies accused of selling fentanyl chemicals filed
The Justice Department has for the first time charged China-based companies and employees with supplying chemicals needed to make fentanyl, a primary driver of an overdose crisis gripping the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday that the companies openly advertised the chemicals on social media platforms and shipped them surreptitiously to buyers, even adding molecules to evade testing.
US launches prosecutions of Chinese companies on charges of trafficking fentanyl ingredients
The U.S. Justice Department has filed criminal charges against four Chinese companies and eight individuals for allegedly trafficking the chemicals used to make the highly addictive painkiller fentanyl in the United States and Mexico.
Takeaways from the scathing report on Minneapolis police after George Floyd's killing
The Justice Department has issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floydโs killing because of inadequate oversight and an unwieldy process for investigating complaints.
Trump will face judge in historic court appearance over charges he mishandled secret documents
Donald Trump is making his first court appearance in a historical criminal case charging the former president with hoarding top secret government documents, boastfully displaying them to visitors and trying to hide them from investigators who demanded them back.
After yearslong delay, DEA revokes license of wholesale drug distributor over opioid crisis failures
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has stripped one of the nationโs largest pharmaceutical distributors of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers after determining it failed to flag thousands of suspicious, high-volume orders at the height of the opioid crisis.
Trump lawyers seek meeting with Garland as Mar-a-Lago investigation shows signs of winding down
Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked for a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland as a Justice Department investigation into the former presidentโs handling of classified documents shows signs of winding down.
Biden's Justice Dept. keeps hard line in death row cases
An Associated Press review of dozens of legal filings shows that President Joe Bidenโs Justice Department is fighting just as vigorously as Donald Trump's did to uphold death row inmates' sentences, despite Biden's opposition to capital punishment.