The Trump administration executed the eighth federal inmate this year just before midnight, after a late Thursday ruling from the Supreme Court overturned a federal judge’s temporary reprieve.
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Despite identifying major gaps in knowledge about asbestos in a recent draft risk report, the Trump administration on Thursday defended lax reporting rules that let companies avoid disclosing how much asbestos is made, imported and put into U.S. products.
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The Justice Department on Thursday reported that former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta exhibited “poor judgment” in his handling of a generous plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 but did not commit professional misconduct.
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Democrats sounded the alarm Tuesday after Attorney General William Barr tasked federal prosecutors with probing allegations of “vote tabulation irregularities,” acting on President Donald Trump’s unsupported claims of widespread election fraud.
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Attorney General William Barr has authorized federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities, if they exist, before the 2020 presidential election is certified, despite no evidence of widespread fraud.
Read moreThe Justice Department sued to block Visa’s $5.3 billion plan to buy financial tech startup Plaid, which the feds say would give Visa the power to raise prices, build barriers for competition to enter the market and reduce innovation.
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Donald Trump cannot deploy the Department of Justice to shield him from a defamation suit brought by rape accuser E. Jean Carroll, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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In a long-anticipated move, the U.S. Department of Justice hit Google with a federal antitrust action on Tuesday, accusing the tech giant of using its dominance over online searches to stifle competition and harm consumers.
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The Justice Department unsealed an indictment Monday accusing six Russian military officers of orchestrating a string of cyberattacks targeting U.S. businesses, French elections and the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Read moreThe Justice Department on Tuesday sued Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former advisor to Melania Trump, over her tell-all book about her time working for the first lady. The suit, which seeks a constructive trust on any profits the author obtains from her book, claims Wolkoff breached her nondisclosure obligations.
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The Department of Justice sued Yale University in a federal lawsuit Thursday, claiming it discriminates against Asians and whites in the undergraduate admissions process.
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The Justice Department admitted on Wednesday to “inadvertently” altering evidence in the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a prosecution the Trump administration has for months fought to abandon.
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Amid a charged legal battle over former national security adviser John Bolton’s tell-all book, a federal judge on Thursday ruled the government made enough of a case to allow the lawsuit to proceed.
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Michael Flynn’s attorney revealed during a court hearing on Tuesday that she spoke directly with President Donald Trump and asked him not to pardon his first national security adviser in the midst of a politically high-strung legal battle.
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The Justice Department asked a federal judge Friday not to stand in the way of its bid to stop Americans from downloads of the mobile messaging app WeChat.
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Drawing on litigation and analysis of policy reversals in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, a panel of civil rights experts told Congress Thursday an unprecedented lack of apolitical senior leadership in the department is beyond troubling 40 days out from an election.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday advanced former FBI director Andrew McCabe’s claims he was fired for his political views, finding it’s way too early in the case to either dismiss or hand the Justice Department the summary judgment it sought.
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The Justice Department wants prosecutors to step up punishment for protesters using charges like sedition — which carries a 20-year sentence. Legal experts say it’s an attempt to quell protests that will likely fizzle.
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The Department of Justice considered federal charges for city of Portland officials over their response to ongoing protests against police brutality, and over the city’s refusal to allow local police to communicate directly with federal agents deployed there.
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In a highly unusual move on Tuesday, the Department of Justice moved to swap the U.S. government for President Donald Trump in a lawsuit filed by his rape accuser E. Jean Carroll.
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