Donald Trump’s vow to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook is at the intersection of the Republican president’s efforts to consolidate power and purge diverse voices from the higher ranks of American leadership.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order challenging a 1989 Supreme Court decision that protects flag burning as free speech.
President Donald Trump's announcement that he's firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has rattled financial markets worldwide.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to prosecute people for burning the American flag.
President Donald Trump says he’s firing Federal Reserve board Member Lisa Cook amid mortgage fraud allegations.
A judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts.
The Justice Department has released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case.
President Donald Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse previous decisions against capital punishment.
Federal investigators looking at gender-affirming care providers demanded that at least one hospital hand over information about individual patients.
The Justice Department official tapped by President Donald Trump’s administration to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter urging the Democrat to resign from office “as an act of good faith” four days into his probe.
Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter that calls for peace in Ukraine, having her husband President Donald Trump hand-deliver it to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska.
The left sees President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of law enforcement in Washington as part of multifront march to autocracy.
The Trump administration has reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington’s “emergency police commissioner” as she carries out President Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to take over the Washington police department.
The Justice Department says it will seek the death penalty against a member of the cultlike Zizians group accused of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont.
A judge has granted a request by federal prosecutors to dismiss two of the 14 counts that U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife face.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” saying she is granting him the powers of the police chief amid President Donald Trump’s takeover.
A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Terry Cole, as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner."
The White House says the number of National Guard troops in Washington will ramp up and federal officers will be on the streets of the nation’s capital around the clock.
Mexico is expelling 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the President Donald Trump‘s administration.
President Donald Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington police echoes that of conservative politicians going back decades who've denounced American cities with majority non-white populations or progressive leaders as crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention.
Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration to assist with law enforcement have begun arriving in Washington, D.
President Donald Trump has ordered 800 National Guard members to help law enforcement fight crime in Washington.
The Trump administration is doubling to $50 million a reward for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and accusing him of working with cartels to flood the U.S. with fentanyl-laced cocaine.
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago but has been slowly eroding for more than a decade.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to criminally investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe from the Obama era.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is moving forward with a Justice Department investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.
Democratic attorneys general and others are accusing President Donald Trump of intimidating hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
President Donald Trump has downplayed the influence of Laura Loomer, a right-wing provocateur known for her incendiary social media presence, in his administration’s decision-making.
Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost continues to haunt the Trump presidency. President Donald Trump wants it to simply disappear. Find out why it probably won’t and how it got to this point. A former federal prosecutor and senior writer for Politico says there are three possible scenarios that may have played out. Find out which is most likely on this week's episode of Politics & Power.
The Justice Department has filed a misconduct complaint against the federal judge who has clashed with President Donald Trump’s administration over deportations to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
President Donald Trump says his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein ended after Epstein hired people who had worked for Trump.
Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell has finished 1 1/2 days of interviews with Justice Department officials.
President Donald Trump faces ongoing questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case, overshadowing his administration's achievements.
President Donald Trump has taken steps to keep Alina Habba as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.
A former Justice Department prosecutor has filed a lawsuit that claims his recent firing was politically motivated retribution for his work on prosecuting Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The revelation that Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump that his name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files has focused fresh attention on the president’s relationship with the wealthy financier and the Justice Department’s announcement this month that it would not be releasing any additional documents from the case.
The Justice Department’s No. 2 official has met with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing Democratic calls to testify before Congress following a newspaper’s revelation that she told President Donald Trump that his name appeared in the files of the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation.
Interest in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation has exploded over the past month even as President Donald Trump urged the public and media to move on from a saga he sees as “pretty boring.”.
The Justice Department wants to interview Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping the New York financier sexually abuse underage girls and is in prison.
Federal records related to the investigation into the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have been released.
A Jacksonville man was sentenced to 17 years and six months in federal prison for attempting to entice and meet a 13-year-old child to engage in sexual activity, according to the United States Attorney’s Office.
Ex-federal prosecutors say a Justice Department request to unseal grand jury transcripts in the prosecution of chronic sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend is unlikely to produce much, if anything, to satisfy the public's appetite for new revelations about the financier's crimes.
Under intense pressure from President Donald Trump’s own supporters, his administration now is asking a federal court to unseal secret documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case.
An explosion at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility killed three veteran deputies from the arson and explosives unit.
House Republicans are trying to formulate a response to the Trump administration’s handling of records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
The controversy over President Donald Trump’s handling of records from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation entered a new dimension Thursday as his administration struggles to make good on its promises to release details on the sex trafficking case involving a one-time friend of the now-president.
Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey who as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan worked on cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, has told colleagues in a note that “fear is the tool of a tyrant” and that her firing without reason should fuel “a fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power.”.
President Donald Trump is countering criticism of the Justice Department’s failure to release much-hyped records around the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, accusing former government officials including Barack Obama, Joe Biden and James Comey of tampering with related documents.
The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the federal cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein.
President Donald Trump is lashing out at his own supporters as he tries to clamp down on criticism over his administration’s handling of much-hyped records in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation.
Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer questions Tuesday about investigate files related to Jeffrey Epstein and her clash with a top FBI official.
A federal grand jury has indicted the man accused of fatally shooting a prominent Minnesota state representative and her husband and seriously wounding a state senator and his wife.
President Donald Trump and Sen. David McCormick of Pennsylvania have jointly announced tens of billions of dollars of energy and technology investments in the state of Pennsylvania.
President Donald Trump’s strategy has been to downplay the uproar over the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case as his supporters demand the Justice Department release much-hyped records in the investigation.
A broken promise to release more information about the Jeffrey Epstein case has sparked outrage among some of President Donald Trump’s loyal supporters.
The Justice Department has fired additional lawyers and support staff who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into President Donald Trump.
The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic.
The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files flap is cascading, further roiling a Justice Department and FBI that have struggled for months to appease the demands of far-right conservative personalities and influential members of President Donald Trump’s base.
The Trump administration is suing California over its animal welfare laws, claiming they unconstitutionally raised egg prices.
The Trump administration has launched an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Human Services over its newly updated affirmative action hiring policy.
President Donald Trump is defending Attorney General Pam Bondi as she faces mounting criticism from far-right influencers and conservative internet personalities over the Justice Department’s abrupt refusal to release additional documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation.
A Minnesota state senator who was shot nine times during an attack in June has been moved to a rehabilitation facility.
The Justice Department will not release more files related to the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking investigation despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists.
A man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband on June 14 says he's looking forward to the facts coming out.
The Department of Justice said a naval reservist pleaded guilty to bribing a public official who worked at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
A former FBI agent who was charged with joining a mob’s attack on the U_S_ Capitol and cheering on rioters is now working as an adviser to the Justice Department official overseeing its “weaponization working group.”.
Two Chinese nationals have been charged with spying inside the United States on behalf of Beijing, including by taking photographs of a naval base and by participating in efforts to recruit members of the military who they thought might be open to working for Chinese intelligence.
The Associated Press has spoken with lawyers and law enforcement officials in cases concerning Jeffrey Epstein who say they have not seen and do not know of a trove of recordings like what Attorney General Pam Bondi has described.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s comments about evidence the Justice Department is reviewing from its Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation have fueled anticipation about the expected release of more files related to the New York financier.
The Justice Department has announced criminal charges in connection with a scheme by North Korea to fund its weapons program through the salaries of remote information technology employed unwittingly by U.S. companies.
State and federal prosecutors have charged more than 320 people in the largest coordinated takedown of health care fraud schemes in Justice Department history that uncovered nearly $15 million in false claims.
A federal judge in New Hampshire has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision limiting federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions threatens to upend numerous lawsuits that have led to orders blocking Trump administration policies.
A new court filing in an ongoing legal dispute with the federal government reveals the psychological and physical trauma endured by children and families held at Texas family detention centers.
President Donald Trump’s administration has asked a federal judge to strike down a Kentucky regulation that it says unlawfully provides undocumented students with access to reduced in-state college tuition.
The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face the death penalty, something that is a rarity for Minnesota but could become more common under the Trump administration.
No-bid contracts with politically connected companies have become crucial to the Republican Trump administration’s push for more space to hold immigrants for deportation.
The Trump administration's Justice Department has begun targeting Democratic and presidential swing states with demands for election data or changes to voter registration procedures.
The Department of Justice said a child sex offender was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempted child enticement.
The audience at the Kennedy Center's opening-night performance of “Les Misérables” greeted President Donald Trump's arrival with a mix of cheers and boos.
