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After 15 boxes of government records were sent to the National Archives in January, attorney Alex Cannon thought Donald Trump might have more records at Mar-a-Lago, people familiar with the matter said.

His lawyers argue he'd be unfairly prejudiced by the shortened scheduled proposed by the Justice Department.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case about whether the Justice Department (DOJ) can use “filter teams,” such as the one enlisted by the DOJ to begin a review of evidence collected at former President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago to determine whether they are privileged. The Justices denied a writ of certiorari…

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, weighed in on the alleged collusion between the National School Boards Association and President Biden's government on "Life, Liberty & Levin."

A 15-year-old who was potentially kidnapped by her father leapt out of his truck after a dramatic police pursuit. She was shot and killed.

"Donald Trump has one mode, it is all offense all the time," Barbara McQuade told MSNBC on Saturday.

Federal Judge Aileen Cannon rejected part of the independent arbiter's requirements of the Trump team and extended some of the deadlines.

The two, who work as healthcare providers, in August revealed to an undercover FBI agent their willingness to give Russia medical information to help its invasion of Ukraine.

Judge Aileen Cannon pushed back the end date for the review of records seized from Mar-a-Lago, in just her latest decision siding with Donald Trump.

A district judge overruled an order by Trump Mar-a-Lago raid case Special Master Raymond Dearie that said Trump needed to provide any “final” objections or disputes regarding seized materials.

The two, who work as healthcare providers, in August revealed to an undercover FBI agent their willingness to give Russia medical information to help its invasion of Ukraine.

The FBI search of Donald Trump’s Florida estate has spawned a parallel “special master” process that has slowed the Justice Department's criminal investigation and exposed simmering tensions between department prosecutors and lawyers for the former president.

The parallel “special master” process spawned by the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Florida estate has slowed the Justice Department's criminal investigation and exposed simmering tensions between department prosecutors and lawyers for the former president. The probe into the presence of top-secret government information at Mar-a-Lago continues. WHO IS THE SPECIAL MASTER AND WHAT IS HIS ROLE?

Families and survivors are divided over whether the Justice Dept. should seek the death penalty for Payton Gendron, accused of fatally shooting 10 Black people.

12 Senate Judiciary members sent a letter to Attorney General Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray asking for an explanation of "the extraordinary fact pattern" of the prosecution and arrest of pro-life activist, Mark Houck.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons.

The founder of the Oath Keepers and four associates are on trial in the U.S. Capitol attack on charges that include seditious conspiracy — a rare Civil War-era charge that strikes to the heart of what prosecutors say happened that day.

Jury selection kicked off in the DC trial against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates on the rare Civil War-era charge of seditious conspiracy over the Jan. 6 riot.

The appeals court ruled that as an employee of the federal government, the president is protected from certain lawsuits.

A New York man has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and illegal possession of a weapon after he was found guilty of attempted kidnapping and trafficking.

A trial is underway in the federal government's lawsuit aiming to kill a partnership between American Airlines and JetBlue Airways in the Northeast.

The appeals court ruled that as an employee of the federal government, the president is protected from certain lawsuits.

American and JetBlue argue the Northeast Alliance allows them to better compete against other airlines serving New York and Boston.

The case against the Oath Keepers founder and four others is considered the Justice Department's biggest pursuit in the Jan. 6 investigation so far.

A former Biogen employee, Michael Bawduniak, alleged Biogen paid kickbacks to doctors to encourage them to prescribe its multiple sclerosis drugs.

What is the history behind the FBI, and why do many accuse it of becoming politicized?

GOP senators are demanding answers from DOJ on why Igor Danchenko was hired by the FBI as a confidential human source and paid with taxpayer dollars.

The government is getting its day in court to try to block a partnership between American Airlines and JetBlue.

The Justice Department said two Massachusetts men have been charged with trafficking thousands of fentanyl pills in candy boxes and wrappers into Connecticut.

A federal judge has rejected the Justice Department’s bid to block a major U.S. sugar manufacturer from acquiring its rival, clearing the way for the acquisition to proceed.

The Justice Department is leading an effort to monitor changes in state law after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

The point of calling for a special master would seem to be to delay the government's investigation. Instead, Raymond J. Dearie has pressed Trump's team on several baseless claims their client made out of court.

On the morning of Sept. 23, residents of Chicago, Illinois, were able to catch the sun rising during "Chicagohenge," where the rising sun aligns with Chicago's street grid.

The new Inflation Reduction Act expands incentives for biofuels, which were already giving government fraud fighters fits.

Raymond Dearie tells the legal team to detail what Trump claims was "planted" at his Florida resort, even though the ex-president watched the search on video.

A recently adopted Department of Veterans Affairs policy providing abortions to veterans and their eligible relatives is legally sound and can continue, the Justice Department said.

In the weeks since the FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and seized about 100 documents with classification markings, the former president has insisted he had declassified the information.

Special Master Raymond Dearie has tapped a retired judge who served as an impartial adviser to the FISA court to assist in the review of records seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago.

Order by Mar-a-Lago special master is the first time Donald Trump’s attorneys have been told to confirm or deny his claims that agents planted evidence or that documents were declassified.

Here's a look at the events that have transpired on the legal front since Trump asked the courts to intervene in the documents dispute.

Trump's lawyers have resisted requests for information about whether records with classified markings seized from Mar-a-Lago were in fact declassified by Trump.

After 226 pilot whales were stranded on Macquarie Island, Australia, rescuers worked to refloat and save 32 of the large animals on Sept. 22.

A federal appeals court has lifted a hold on the Justice Department’s use in a criminal probe of sensitive documents retrieved in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas, has agreed to be interviewed by the House Jan. 6 panel. And the two winners of the third largest jackpot in U.S. history have finally claimed their prize, two months after the drawing for the $1.3 billion Mega Millions jackpot. They’ll split it.

A panel with two Trump-nominated judges rejected not just the Trump legal team’s lack of arguments, but also Cannon’s acceptance of them.

A federal appeals court has permitted the Justice Department to resume its use of classified records seized from Donal Trump's Florida estate as part of its ongoing criminal investigation.

An appeals court on Wednesday lifted a judge's ruling that blocked the Justice Department from using classified documents seized from resident Donald Trump’s Florida estate.

Department of Justice is gearing up to go ahead and indict Donald Trump, criminology expert says.

The ruling means the Justice Department will immediately regain access to the classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.

While Justice Department lawyers and Trump battle over access to the roughly 100 documents with classified markings, proceedings for the review of the materials retrieved from Mar-a-Lago by the outside arbiter have begun.

A federal appeals court has lifted a judge’s hold on the Justice Department’s ability to use classified records seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate in its ongoing criminal investigation.

“We're going to proceed with what I call responsible dispatch," Raymond Dearie, a veteran Brooklyn judge, told lawyers.

Veteran judge Raymond Dearie who is tasked with inspecting items seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's home held his first meeting with lawyers for Trump and the Justice Department.

The independent arbiter tasked with inspecting documents seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home says he intends to push briskly though the review process.

The defendants carried out a plot to steal $250 million from a federal nutrition program meant to serve needy children in Minnesota. Officials called it a "brazen scheme of staggering proportions."

Former President Trump’s legal team on Tuesday said the raid of Mar-a-Lago is “unprecedented” and “at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control.”

Former President Trump’s legal team is again seeking to block the Justice Department from bypassing a special master review of the classified records it seized from his Florida home. In a filing with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, Trump asked the court to deny the Justice Department’s request after it appealed a…

The filing came before attorneys for Trump and the DOJ were set to appear for a conference with the special master reviewing the seized Mar-a-Lago records.

Trump's lawyers are going to even greater lengths to avoid taking a position on whether he declassified the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. Let's parse their arguments.

The independent arbiter tasked with inspecting documents seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home says he intends to push briskly through the review process.

President Joe Biden says the discovery of top-secret documents at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate raised concerns that sensitive data was compromised and calls it “irresponsible.”.

The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to lift a judge’s order that temporarily barred it from reviewing a batch of classified documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month.

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has complied with a Justice Department subpoena and turned over records as part of a federal investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol and efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election.

A federal judge has unsealed additional portions of an FBI affidavit laying out the basis for a search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.

The Justice Department says it's willing to accept one of Donald Trump’s picks for an independent arbiter to review documents seized during an FBI search of the former president’s Florida home last month.

The Justice Department and Donald Trump’s legal team have proposed candidates to serve as an independent arbiter in the investigation into top-secret information found in an FBI search of the former president’s Florida home.

In a new book, the man who was U.S. attorney in Manhattan during over half of Donald Trump's presidency says he was repeatedly pressured by Justice Department officials to use his office to aid them politically.

The Justice Department is preparing to appeal a judge’s decision to name an independent arbiter to review records seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.

A little-known federal judge appointed to the bench two years ago by Donald Trump is in the spotlight this week over her decision to hand the former president a major procedural win.

Along with highly classified government documents, FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month found dozens of folders marked classified but with nothing inside and no explanation of what might have been there.

A federal judge appears to have given a boost to former President Donald Trump’s hopes for appointing an outside legal expert to review government records seized by the FBI.

At first, Republicans were highly critical of the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

An FBI investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago is zeroing in on the question of whether former President Donald Trump’s team obstructed the probe.

The Justice Department will no longer allow its political appointees to go to fundraisers or other campaign events.

A legal filing shows the Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate this month.

A federal judge has told the Justice Department to provide her with more specific information about the classified records removed from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.

A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified documents at President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.

The U.S. Secret Service said Friday that it has recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic loans and is returning the money to the Small Business Administration.

Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence.

A judge has ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump to look for classified documents.

Justice Department officials who evaluated then-President Donald Trump’s actions during the Russia investigation concluded that nothing he did, including firing the FBI director, rose to the level of obstruction of justice.

The National Archives and Records Administration recovered 100 documents bearing classified markings, totaling more than 700 pages, from a initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked a federal judge to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate until a neutral special master can be appointed.

The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr improperly withheld portions of an internal memorandum Barr cited in publicly announcing that then-President Donald Trump had not committed obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation.

A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to put forward proposed redactions as he committed to making public at least part of the affidavit supporting the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida.

The Justice Department is rebuffing an effort to make public the affidavit supporting the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida.

A judge has unsealed the Mar-a-Lago search warrant documents, after former President Trump’s legal team agreed to release them.

Court papers show that the FBI recovered documents labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

New information was reported about what FBI agents were searching for when they raided President Trump’s Florida home as the Justice Dept. asked a court to unseal the search warrant.

The Justice Department has asked a court to unseal the federal warrant the FBI used to search the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump.

The Justice Department says an Iranian operative has been charged in a plot to murder former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton.

-U.S. Rep. Scott Perry says his cellphone was seized Tuesday by FBI agents carrying a search warrant.

Whether an FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence is a prelude to criminal charges is unknown — especially unclear since other investigations into mishandling of classified information have ended without prosecution or in misdemeanor plea deals.

The Justice Department has filed suit against Peter Navarro, claiming the former adviser to Donald Trump used an unofficial email account while working in the White House and wrongfully retained presidential records.

The Biden administration has filed its first legal challenge to a state abortion ban since the end of Roe v. Wade with a case that could allow hospitals to keep giving women abortion-related medical care in serious medical situations.

The U.S. government and publishing titan Penguin Random House have exchanged opening salvos in a federal antitrust trial.

The House Jan. 6 committee will share 20 of its interview transcripts with the Justice Department as federal prosecutors have been increasingly focused on efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the election.

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against some of the largest poultry producers in the United States.

The Jan. 6 congressional hearings have paused, at least for now, and Washington is taking stock of what was learned about the actions of Donald Trump and associates surrounding the Capitol attack.

The National Association of Immigration Judges has asked the federal government to restore its union recognition after the Trump administration stripped its official status and the system’s chief judge resigned after two years on the job.

In a Jan. 6 committee hearing already sprinkled with notable moments, Rep. Liz Cheney saved perhaps the most startling one for last.