The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold confirmation hearings July 15 and 16 for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche as some Republicans remain undecided on supporting him for the post.

President Donald Trump has confirmed a deal to end the war with Iran and allow oil traffic to begin again through the Strait of Hormuz.

A federal judge in Virginia has extended a court-ordered block on the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government.

The Justice Department has announced charges against a Guatemalan woman accused of using false identification to gain custody of migrant children.

President Donald Trump says he’s called off new military strikes on Iran hours after threatening to escalate the 3-month-old war.

A federal judge has rejected a government watchdog’s request for a court order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from forging ahead with a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government.

The U.S. military says it has carried out strikes against Iran following the crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic.

President Donald Trump is dismissing the idea that launching the war with Iran betrayed his refrain of “No new wars” as he campaigned for the White House in 2024.

The Senate has passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies, sending it to the House.

Senate Republicans are working toward passage of legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is back on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee on the department’s priorities, one day after he refused to say whether President Donald Trump and his family would still get immunity from IRS audits after the administration abandoned plans for a $1.776 billion compensation fund that would have benefited the president’s allies.

President Donald Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, tapping his former personal attorney who has aggressively pursued the Republican president’s agenda while leading the Justice Department in an acting role.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is refusing to say whether President Donald Trump and his family will still receive immunity from IRS audits after the administration abandoned plans for a $1.776 billion compensation fund.

The Republican-led Senate is moving forward with legislation to fund immigration enforcement agencies after forcing the White House to drop its settlement fund for political allies and stripping a separate proposal for White House security from the bill.

The House approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to seek to end the war.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will face more questions about the Trump administration’s fragile or stalling diplomatic efforts around the world in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill for the first time since the Iran war began.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Trump administration is scrapping plans to create a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate allies of the Republican president after widespread political backlash and setbacks in the courts.

Senate Republicans are weighing their next steps after the Trump administration's announcement that it is scrapping a $1.8 billion settlement fund for the president's allies who claim to have been politically prosecuted.

President Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to move forward with a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said Monday.

A standoff between the White House and the Senate remains unresolved as Republicans return to Washington after defiantly leaving town 10 days ago without passing legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies.

Many of the convicted rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are clamoring for payouts from the nearly $1.8 billion settlement that the Trump administration has set up for people claiming to be victims of a weaponized government.

The top federal prosecutor in Chicago denies that his office has opened an investigation into E.

The Southern Poverty Law Center says a Justice Department indictment against the group is part of a “top-down” campaign of retribution against President Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies and represents a vindictive prosecution that must be dismissed.

The Department of Justice is acknowledging it's removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

A human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee has been dismissed without a trial.

A coalition of President Donald Trump's critics is suing to block payouts from a new $1.8 billion settlement fund for Trump allies claiming to be victims of a weaponized government.

In pushing to prove his loyalty to President Donald Trump, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has agitated the same Republican lawmakers whose votes he may need to secure the permanent job.

President Donald Trump’s political revenge tour met its potential match this week as angry Republican senators finally said no, even if temporarily.

Raúl Castro rarely makes public appearances these days.

President Donald Trump on Thursday said past U_S_ presidents have mulled intervening in Cuba for decades, but “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it.”.

Former Cuban President Raúl Castro has been charged in a U.S. indictment with murder and other crimes for his alleged role in the downing of two civilian aircraft operated by Miami-based exiles in 1996 off the coast of the Caribbean island.

Republican senators are considering dropping a proposal for $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and President Donald Trump’s ballroom after it has failed to win enough party support on Capitol Hill.

Federal prosecutors have announced charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles.

Two police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot are suing to block anyone from receiving payouts from a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for people who claim to be victims of politically motivated prosecutions.

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged former Cuban President Raúl Castro with ordering the 1996 shootdown of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles, a major escalation of pressure by the Trump administration on the socialist government.

The U.S. government has agreed to permanently drop tax claims against President Donald Trump, according to a settlement document that is part of a deal to resolve Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche wouldn’t rule out the possibility that violent rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will be considered for payouts from a new $1.776 billion fund to compensate individuals who believe they were targeted politically.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has not ruled out the possibility of compensating individuals involved in violence during the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot from a new $1.776 billion fund.

The Justice Department has announced a nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund for Trump allies who believe they were wrongly prosecuted by the Biden administration.

A Kansas judge has protected access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors as the nation’s largest children’s hospital moved to restrict such care in Texa and buckled under pressure from the Trump administration.

Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against the operator of the ship that crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March 2024 leading to the deaths of six construction workers.

A man charged with attacking the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is seeking to disqualify top Justice Department officials from direct involvement in prosecuting him because they could be considered victims or witnesses in the case.

The Trump administration has reached a proposed settlement in an antitrust case against Agri Stats, a data-sharing company for the meatpacking industry.

Former FBI Director James Comey is seeking to cancel his upcoming court appearance in North Carolina.

The leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center has pleaded not guilty on behalf of the organization to charges that the civil rights group has defrauded donors by failing to disclose that money would be paid to informants inside extremist groups.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department is working to remove immigration judges who are slow or not following the law.

A man accused of trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and attempting to kill President Donald Trump has been indicted on a new charge that he fired a shotgun at a Secret Service officer during the attack.

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against Denver and its police department seeking to strike down an assault weapons ban that’s been in place for Colorado’s largest city since 1989.

Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump struck a Secret Service agent.

Federal prosecutors have released a video showing the moment authorities say an armed man with guns and knives tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump.

Three family members face charges for allegedly assaulting a journalist who writes for a conservative organization during a protest in Minnesota.

Justice Department officials are moving to roll back and modify a slate of gun regulations in a dramatic shift in firearm policy pushed by Second Amendment supporters in President Donald Trump’s base.

Former FBI Director James Comey has appeared briefly in court, kick-starting a criminal case against him that legal experts say presents significant hurdles for the prosecution and will likely be a challenge for the Justice Department to win.

The Justice Department is pressing for the dismissal of preservationists’ lawsuit over the planned $400 million White House ballroom after the shooting at Saturday’s media gala.

Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted again, this time over a social media photo of seashells arranged on a beach that officials say constituted a threat against President Donald Trump.

A former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci has been indicted on federal charges alleging he conspired to hide his communications related to COVID-19 research as the pandemic unfolded.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has told a federal court that law enforcement agencies knew for years that the nonprofit was paying informants to report on the movements of hate groups.

The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives has been charged with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.

The Justice Department is pushing to dismiss a lawsuit blocking President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project.

The sound of gunfire at the Washington Hilton Hotel carried echoes of President Ronald Reagan's shooting outside the same hotel more than four decades ago.

The man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner referred to himself as a “Friendly Federal Assassin” in writings sent to family members minutes before the shooting.

The Trump administration’s historic move to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug was cheered by some advocates but for others, it fell far short for the thousands incarcerated for federal cannabis-related convictions.

The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's indictment is sparking outrage among civil rights leaders.

A cannabis industry group calls President Donald Trump’s reclassification of state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug “the most significant federal advancement in cannabis policy" in decades.

The Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas issued in the investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan, with officials asking for voluntary interviews instead of testimony before a grand jury.

In a story published April 21, 2026, about a Justice Department case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, The Associated Press erroneously reported that an informant was allegedly paid more than $270,000 between 2015 and 2013.

A lead prosecutor in the John Brennan investigation has been removed from the case after expressing concerns to Justice Department officials about the viability of a potential criminal prosecution of the former CIA director.

Minnesota officials are pushing forward with investigations of federal law enforcement officers involved in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.

Minnesota prosecutors have charged an ICE agent with assault for pointing his gun at the occupants of a car on a Minneapolis highway.

The Trump administration has fired four Justice Department prosecutors involved in cases against anti-abortion activists.

U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze has been appointed to a second one-year term by the Library of Congress.

The Department of Justice has indicated that former Attorney General Pam Bondi won't appear for a scheduled deposition next week before a House committee investigating how the government handled its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein.

The Justice Department’s new leader says “nobody” except President Donald Trump knows why Pam Bondi was replaced as attorney general last week.

Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump’s political enemies.

After Pam Bondi became U.S. attorney general last year, conservative influencers, online sleuths and others who wanted the government to disclose all it knew about Jeffrey Epstein thought they might have a champion in the Department of Justice.

Before picking Todd Blanche to help lead and now run the Justice Department, President Donald Trump was his client.

President Donald Trump said Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general.

President Donald Trump said Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general.

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a new Justice Department division focused on prosecuting fraud over critics’ concerns of potential political pressure to target White House opponents.

Democratic lawmakers have stormed out of a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein files by Justice Department leaders, and say they will push to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions under oath about the case.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has been subpoenaed to answer questions from Congress about the Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and the agency’s handling of millions of files related to the disgraced financier.

Chief Justice John Roberts is warning that personal criticism of federal judges is dangerous and “it’s got to stop.”.

A federal judge has for now halted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s biggest vaccine moves, disrupting his push to remake U.S. immunization policy.

The office that enforces the ethics code for attorneys in the nation’s capital has accused Justice Department official Ed Martin of professional misconduct for a threatening letter that he sent to Georgetown Law School’s dean last year.

A representative of the U_S_ Attorney’s office has claimed in federal court in Tennessee that the decision to charge Kilmar Abrego-Garcia with human smuggling was his alone while a Homeland Security agent has testified that the case against Abrego Garcia “just kept getting stronger.”.

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a new Justice Department division dedicated to rooting out fraud says he would pursue prosecutions “without fear or favor,” amid growing questions about how the new unit will operate free of political pressure from a White House that has declared a “war on fraud.”.

Lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to Jeffrey Epstein, saying a law used to force the recent public release of millions of documents is unconstitutional.

A lawyer picked by judges to serve as the top federal prosecutor for a Virginia office that pursued cases against foes of President Donald Trump has been swiftly fired by the Justice Department in the latest clash over the appointments of powerful U.S. attorneys.

Financial groups in Canada and the UK have paused new projects with DP World after emails show its CEO had a long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

A lawyer appointed by judges to be the U.S. attorney for northern New York has been fired by the Justice Department in the latest clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the process for selecting top federal prosecutors.

Attorney General Pam Bondi says she's not worried about the involvement of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in an FBI search of a Georgia election office.

Two decades after Jeffrey Epstein was first reported to police, the Justice Department has started to publicly release investigative files on the late sex offender and his longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell.

More prosecutors are leaving the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota during a time of continued turmoil over the Trump administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement in the state and recent shootings of civilians by federal agents.

The Justice Department says it has taken down several thousand documents and “media” that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information after lawyers for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's victims complained of insufficient redactions.

A top Justice Department official is playing down the possibility of additional criminal charges arising from the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The Justice Department has released over 3 million pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol officers.

The fatal shooting of Minneapolis man Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers has sparked calls for an independent investigation.

Lindsey Halligan, who as a top Justice Department prosecutor pursued indictments against a pair of President Donald Trump’s adversaries, is leaving her position.