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Byline: Maureen Groppe and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Buckle up. The Supreme Court in the coming days will issue a flurry of potentially blockbuster decisions on abortion access, [...]

Byline: N'dea Yancey-Bragg, Joshua Williams and Pam Dankins, USA TODAY JACKSON, Miss. - The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who last month were handed yearslong federal prison sentences for [...]

Byline: John Fritze, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Three men involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are asking the Supreme Court to wipe out part of their [...]

Byline: David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Former President Donald Trump used a new interview to explain his abortion position, defend his age as he seeks a second term in [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen, David Jackson and Josh Meyer, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Unprecedented. Landmark. Unique. The superlatives fail to do justice to another potential indictment against Donald Trump - this [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen, David Jackson, and Josh Meyer, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The Justice Department target letter sent to former President Donald Trump listed categories of charges he could face, [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen USA TODAY U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon heard arguments Tuesday from Donald Trump's defense lawyers and prosecutors about his landmark trial on charges he kept classified documents [...]

Byline: Hannah Phillips and Antonio Fins, Palm Beach Post, USA TODAY NETWORK MIAMI - Waltine 'Walt' Nauta, the man charged alongside Donald Trump with mishandling classified documents, pleaded not guilty [...]

Byline: Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register, USA TODAY NETWORK SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Former Vice President Mike Pence said it would be appropriate to consider pardoning Donald Trump only if [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen and Josh Meyer, USA TODAY Donald Trump's federal trial on charges related to the classified documents seized at his Mar-a-Lago estate is scheduled to begin Aug. 14, [...]

Byline: Josh Meyer, USA TODAY Former President Donald Trump offered a new explanation Monday of why he didn't return classified documents he took with him from the White House, saying [...]

Byline: Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief, USA TODAY The arraignment of a former president Tuesday on charges of violating the Espionage Act was breathtaking. Trump's gag order leaves a lot [...]

Byline: Josh Meyer, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Waltine 'Walt' Nauta, Donald Trump's ever-loyal 'body man' in the White House and then at Mar-a-Lago for his post-presidency, has been indicted along [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen and Josh Meyer, USA TODAY Donald Trump prepared for his initial court appearance Tuesday as the first former president to be criminally indicted, flying from New Jersey [...]

Byline: Ingrid Jacques It's quite telling about our political environment that we are not more shocked by a former president facing his second indictment since March. This time, Donald Trump [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - A federal judge sentenced Richard 'Bigo' Barnett, one of the most infamous Capitol rioters, on Wednesday to 54 months in prison after he [...]

Byline: Lauren Bonds, National Police Accountability Project In May 2019, Ronald Greene was beaten to death by Louisiana state troopers. Patrol leadership initially waged an aggressive cover-up campaign, claiming Greene [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen and Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday, calling the Ohio Republican's inquiry into the prosecution of [...]

Byline: Joey Garrison and Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY Donald Trump's arraignment has thrust the U.S. criminal justice system into dramatically new territory, testing the durability of courtroom rules and [...]

Byline: Kevin Johnson and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Justice Department officials unsealed charges Monday against 13 Chinese operatives involved in three influence campaigns, including two intelligence officers accused [...]

Byline: Russ Bynum, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAVANNAH, Ga. - One of the men convicted of murder in the street chase and fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery spoke with his former boss, [...]

Byline: Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday opened the first jury trial to emerge from the sprawling investigation of the Capitol assault on Jan. 6, 2021, [...]

Byline: Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY The chairman of former President Donald Trump's inaugural committee, Thomas Barrack, was charged in a conspiracy to illegally advance the interests of the United Arab [...]

Byline: Marc Kovac, The Columbus Dispatch, USA TODAY NETWORK Jessica Watkins, an alleged leader of the paramilitary group Oath Keepers who was arrested for her role in the Jan. 6 [...]

Byline: Kristine Phillips, Kevin Johnson and Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in [...]

Byline: Barbara McQuade Truth still matters in some places. A courtroom is one of them. In imposing a 40-month sentence on Roger Stone, Judge Amy Berman Jackson did something the [...]

Byline: Kristine Phillips and Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The Justice Department backed away from a stiff prison sentence recommended for Roger Stone, a longtime ally of President Donald [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen, Ledyard King and John D'Anna, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's defense team rested its case after two hours Tuesday, arguing that the charges against him [...]

Byline: N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on Dec. 18 on two charges: Abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Tuesday Senate Majority Leader [...]

Byline: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - A generation has passed since the last presidential impeachment trial in the Senate, though in political terms, it may seem like a lifetime. [...]

Byline: Courtney Subramanian USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives cast a vote in favor of two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, accusing him of abuse of [...]

Byline: Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for skipping bail in Britain seven years ago and seeking refuge in [...]

Byline: Thomas Maresca, Special to USA TODAYBeijing fired back Tuesday over criminal charges against Chinese telecom giant Huawei, calling them politically motivated and urging the United States to stop the [...]

Byline: William Cummings, USA TODAYA defiant Roger Stone denounced the 'Gestapo tactics' of federal authorities Sunday and denied the allegations against him two days after being arrested by the FBI [...]

Byline: Kevin Johnson, Bart Jansen, and Kevin McCoy, USA TODAYWASHINGTON - A Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign was charged with obstruction in [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen, USA TODAYWASHINGTON - A federal judge set a tentative hearing for Jan. 25 to hear disputes about whether Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, breached [...]

Byline: Matthew Cooper When I heard that President Trump had pardoned a pivotal figure from the George W. Bush era, I started having flashbacks. A little over 11 years ago, [...]

Byline: John Bacon, USA TODAY Lawyers for the woman accused of aiding her husband in the rampage at Orlando's Pulse nightclub that left 49 people dead in 2016 asked for [...]

Byline: Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Christine Leinonen couldn't care less about the widow of the Pulse nightclub gunman. She plans to attend the first day of the trial Thursday that's [...]

Byline: Erin Kelly, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Trump's Twitter habit may become a legal liability for him because his latest tweets about the Russia investigation could help build a [...]

Byline: John Bacon The Utah hospital dragged into the national spotlight after a Salt Lake City detective arrested a nurse for doing her job has apologized to the nurse and [...]

Byline: Aamer Madhani, @AamerISmad, USA TODAY Three current or former Chicago Police officers have been indicted on state charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and misconduct related to the investigation [...]

Byline: David Jackson, @djusatoday, USA TODAY While President Trump stayed unusually silent on James Comey, his lawyer stressed Thursday that Comey's testimony proved that Trump did not collude with Russia [...]

Byline: Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY Former FBI director James Comey confirmed in detail Wednesday that President Trump privately requested his loyalty and urged him to drop the investigation into former [...]

Byline: John Bacon, and Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY The wife of Omar Mateen, the man who killed 49 people in a shooting rampage at an Orlando nightclub last June, was [...]

Byline: John Bacon, USA TODAY Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced her resignation Tuesday, one day after a jury convicted her of perjury, obstruction of justice and other charges. The [...]

Feds: blast at fertilizer plant in Texas was arson Federal investigators on Wednesday blamed arson for a deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas in 2013 that killed 15 [...]

Byline: Josh Peter, @joshlpeter11, USA TODAY Sports Jeff Novitzky wants to set the record straight. During a recent interview with USA TODAY Sports, the former federal agent said he and [...]

Byline: The Associated Press Barry Bonds' obstruction of justice conviction was thrown out Wednesday by a federal court of appeals, which ruled 10-1 that his meandering answer before a grand [...]

Byline: Martha T. Moore, and Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY Republican Rep. Michael Grimm was indicted Monday on federal charges of tax evasion and perjury for allegedly hiding more than $1 [...]