President Donald Trump says he's instructed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem not to intervene in protests in Democratic-led cities unless local authorities request federal help.

Aggressive immigration enforcement in Minnesota, which resulted in the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens by federal agents, and this week’s FBI search of an election office in Georgia have Democratic election officials concerned about what could be in store for this fall’s midterm elections.

President Donald Trump seemed to signal a willingness to ease tensions in Minneapolis after a second deadly shooting by federal immigration agents.

Attorney General Pam Bondi says a woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church has been arrested.

The Washington Post has asked a federal court for an order requiring federal authorities to return electronic devices that they seized from a Post reporter’s Virginia home last week.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says that her government sent 37 cartel members to the United States at the request of the U.S. Justice Department.

The Supreme Court seems inclined to keep Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook in her job.

A House committee has advanced resolutions to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

Maine has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement wave.

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

President Donald Trump’s bid to reshape the Federal Reserve board is putting the Supreme Court in a familiar position, weighing an emergency appeal from the president’s lawyers in a politically charged case.

The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements they have made, according to two people familiar with the matter.

As Attorney General Pam Bondi approaches her first anniversary on the job, the firings of career attorneys have defined her turbulent tenure.

A federal judge has dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against California that sought detailed voting records and personal data on the state’s 23 million registered voters.

Press freedom advocates are concerned this week's raid on a Washington Post journalist's home will deter reporting on government actions and silence whistleblowers.

Attorney General Pam Bondi says the search of a Washington Post reporter’s home was done at the Pentagon’s request as part of a leak investigation.

Justice Department officials have accused a federal judge of abusing his power in demanding that Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan explain why she continues to identify herself as a U.S. Attorney in Virginia despite another judge’s ruling that she was illegally appointed.

The FBI says in a court document that it has found no surveillance or other video of a Border Patrol agent shooting and wounding two people in a pickup truck during an immigration enforcement operation in Portland, Oregon, last week.

Luigi Mangione is in federal court for a pivotal hearing in his fight to bar the government from seeking the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a campaign to end court orders they describe as outdated.

Federal prosecutors are slamming Luigi Mangione’s lawyers for making what the government said were “meritless” and “misleading” claims about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ties to a lobbying firm and her decision to seek the death penalty against Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Officials in Connecticut and Arizona are defending their decision to refuse a request from the U.S. Justice Department to turn over detailed voter information.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top officials have briefed leaders in Congress on the striking military operation in Venezuela.

After apparent months of planning, the U.S. strike that resulted in the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro unfolded swiftly over the weekend, with American forces converging on Caracas to arrest Maduro and his wife.

A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictment accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fueled by a drug-trafficking operation that flooded the U.S. with thousands of tons of cocaine.

Nicolás Maduro's fall at the hands of the United States follows months of pressure from the Trump administration.

The Department of Justice has expanded its review of documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to 5.2 million as it also expands the number of attorneys trying to comply with a law mandating their release.

The Justice Department says that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is defending the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline.

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company.

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.

The Justice Department has released thousands of files about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the incomplete document dump Friday did not break significant ground about the long-running criminal investigations of the financier or his ties to wealthy and powerful individuals.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and broadly defending Donald Trump's second presidency in a series of interviews published Tuesday.

President Donald Trump has delivered a speech where he discussed his achievements and touched on some of his agenda for next year and beyond.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and broadly defending Donald Trump's second presidency in a series of interviews published Tuesday.

Federal authorities have announced the arrests of four alleged members of an extremist anti-capitalist and anti-government group suspected of planning coordinated bombing attacks in Southern California.

The Justice Department has asked an appeals court to block a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.

Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate allegations made by a former attorney for President Donald Trump in Wisconsin that a judge overseeing his felony case is guilty of misconduct and must step aside.

In a story published Dec. 12, 2025, about the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Windward maritime intelligence firm, erroneously reported the name of a Windward senior analyst.

President Donald Trump says the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, announced her resignation as acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey.

The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. immigration agents has sued the Trump administration for free speech violations.

Top law enforcement officials in the Trump administration had a clear message when they announced the arrest of a man charged with placing pipe bombs outside political party headquarters in Washington on Jan. 5, 2021.

President Donald Trump had long threatened that he could order military strikes on targets on Venezuelan territory after months of attacks on boats accused of carrying drugs from the South American country.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is challenging the authority of an acting U.S. attorney in Albany who is investigating her.

President Donald Trump says he’s invited the family of a National Guard member fatally shot last week to the White House.

The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling infrastructure, including falling concrete that threatens to knock out the facility’s heating system.

A court official has dismissed a Justice Department complaint that accused a federal judge of misconduct during hearings for a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops serving in the military.

A federal judge’s dismissal of criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney Letitia James, two political foes of President Donald Trump, won’t be the final word on the matter.

The Justice Department is on the clock to release files relating to Jeffrey Epstein after President Donald Trump signed a measure passed by Congress.

The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein.

New Orleans is warily awaiting a monthslong federal crackdown to arrest thousands of immigrants.

U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing federal disaster funds and using the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

A veteran FBI employee is claiming in a lawsuit that he was fired last month after displaying an LGBTQ+ flag at his workspace.

A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada who is wanted by authorities for running a multi-national drug trafficking network is facing additional charges in connection with the killing of a federal witness.

Congress is sending President Donald Trump a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and officials from State and Treasury will make a press announcement regarding “significant enforcement actions against an international criminal organization.”

The prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey has hit another hurdle.

Ten Democratic secretaries of state are asking the Trump administration to provide more information about its efforts to seek voter registration data.

Federal officials have arrested a New Jersey man accused of destroying property while trying to confront acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba.

President Donald Trump has justified American military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs by saying the longtime U.S. strategy of interdicting such vessels has been a major failure.

President Donald Trump is facing new scrutiny over the use of a replicated signature on several recent pardons.

Acceding to President Donald Trump’s demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump political foes, including former President Bill Clinton.

The Justice Department has sued to block new congressional district boundaries approved by California voters, joining a legal battle that could determine which party wins control of the U.S. House in 2026.

Lawyers for two of President Donald Trump’s foes who've been charged by the Justice Department have asked a federal judge to dismiss the cases against them, saying the prosecutor who secured the indictments was illegally installed.

Prosecutors in the case of a man charged with killing a top Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and her husband say they've turned over a massive amount of evidence to the defense.

The Justice Department has embarked on a fresh investigation into one of President Donald Trump’s chief grievances, issuing a flurry of subpoenas related to the U.S. government’s inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is asking a federal judge to dismiss a mortgage fraud case against her, calling it a vindictive and politically motivated prosecution brought at the behest of a president who regards her as an enemy.

A jury has begun deliberating in the Justice Department’s assault case against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent, turning him into a symbol of resistance to President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital.

A man charged with assault for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent calls it an act of protest.

The Justice Department is urging a federal judge to reject James Comey’s claim that his prosecution amounts to political retribution.

A trial has begun for a former government attorney charged with assault for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent.

Two men have been charged with terrorism-related crimes in the Detroit area after federal authorities made arrests and seized a cache of weapons last week in a storage unit and elsewhere.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing back against the Trump administration's investigation of cases that she brought against the president and National Rifle Association.

Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey want to review a transcript and audio recording of grand jury proceedings in his criminal case, citing what they say were “irregularities” in the process that should result in the dismissal of an indictment pushed by President Donald Trump.

A federal judge has ruled acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in Southern California is serving in the role unlawfully.

A federal judge in Tennessee has warned of possible sanctions against top Trump administration officials if they continue to make inflammatory statements about Kilmar Abrego Garcia that could prejudice his coming trial.

House Republicans have released a long-promised report on former President Joe Biden's use of the autopen and the alleged cover-up of his mental state while in office.

A judge in New Mexico halted legal proceedings in a federal death penalty case because the U.S. government shutdown is impeding the defendant’s right to legal representation.

President Donald Trump has suggested he’s entitled to compensation from the federal government over investigations he faced that he claims were politically motivated.

President Donald Trump says the federal government owes him “a lot of money” for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and insists that any decision on a payout would “have to go across my desk.”.

House Republicans are preparing to release a report about President Joe Biden's mental state and the alleged misuse of the presidential autopen during his term.

Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey are urging a judge to dismiss the case against him.

Federal appeals court judges questioned the Trump administration’s maneuvers to keep the president’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, in place as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor.

Former national security adviser John Bolton has turned himself in to federal authorities in Maryland and pleaded not guilty after being indicted on charges of keeping top secret documents at his home and sharing classified information with family members.

President Donald Trump is embracing tough-on-crime policies in his second term.

The indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James on allegations of mortgage fraud has raised alarms among her allies and Black leaders, who condemned it as a politicization of the justice system for President Donald Trump's personal grievances.

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione say a New York federal judge should dismiss criminal charges, including a death-eligible count, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare's chief executive.

Federal prosecutors say no harm was done to the prospects for a fair trial when two U.S. Justice Department officials reposted potentially inflammatory comments President Donald Trump made about Luigi Mangione after his arrest in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO.

The Trump administration hasn't provided evidence to lawmakers that recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats were justified.

President Donald Trump said Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago.

The federal judge overseeing the Justice Department’s prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey has already handled cases in President Donald Trump’s orbit.

Former FBI Director James Comey has pleaded not guilty in a criminal case that has highlighted the Justice Department’s efforts to target adversaries of President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump’s administration is warning Tuesday of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a government shutdown, reversing what has been longstanding policy for some 750,000 furloughed employees, according to a memo being circulated by the White House.

Attorney General Pam Bondi goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday morning as federal agents surge into cities across the U.S. She's facing growing questions about political influence over a Justice Department that has already criminally charged one of President Donald Trump’s longtime foes and is facing intense White House pressure to prosecute others.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has repeatedly deflected questions while seeking to defend herself during a combative congressional hearing in the face of growing criticism that she's turning the law enforcement agency into a weapon to seek vengeance against President Donald Trump’s political opponents.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein.

Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken down.

The Justice Department fired a top national security prosecutor amid criticism from a right-wing commentator over his work during the Biden administration, further roiling the prominent U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia after the ousting of other senior attorneys in recent weeks.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller have converged on Memphis, Tennessee, to meet with federal agents forming a crime fighting task force there.