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Byline: RIO YAMAT, TARA COP, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG; ASSOCIATED PRESS An Army soldier who fatally shot himself in a Tesla Cybertruck just before it exploded outside the Trump [...]

LAS VEGAS -- The highly decorated army soldier inside a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas shot himself in the head just [...]

Byline: ZEKE MILLER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG; ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — New Attorney General https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-department-bondi-garland-01edf039f8102271943da4fb85d56fa7 on Wednesday ordered a review of the federal prosecution of Donald Trump as she unveiled a series of directives designed to overhaul a [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-department-bondi-garland-01edf039f8102271943da4fb85d56fa7 was sworn in Wednesday as attorney general, taking charge of the https://apnews.com/hub/us-department-of-justice as it braces for upheaval with President Donald Trump aiming to exert his will [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Justice Department official accused the FBI's acting leaders of “insubordination” in a Wednesday memo in which he sought to soothe anxiety inside the bureau over [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate was heading towards a confirmation vote for Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general Tuesday evening, potentially putting a longtime ally of Donald Trump at the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents who participated in investigations related to President Donald Trump have sued over Justice Department efforts to https://apnews.com/article/trump-fbi-firing-a7b19a5f414ce82c6f6b5f6656000d23 involved in those inquiries that they fear could [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of FBI employees who participated in investigations related to the https://apnews.com/projects/january-6-cases/ are being asked to complete in-depth questionnaires about their involvement in the inquiries as the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday fired a group of prosecutors involved in the https://apnews.com/projects/january-6-cases/ and demanded the names of FBI agents involved in those same probes so [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration officials are moving to fire at least some of the FBI agents engaged in https://apnews.com/article/trump-capitol-riot-justice-department-jack-smith-d6172cf98d8e03e099571c908267456c, two people familiar with the plans said Friday. It was [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, conservative activist Ed Martin has promoted Donald Trump's false claims about a stolen 2020 election, railed against the prosecution of the https://apnews.com/projects/january-6-cases/ and represented some [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on https://apnews.com/article/trump-federal-court-classified-documents-2020-election-302f87960dbd84d7be5daedaf03328d8, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in [...]

CHICAGO (AP) — Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-border-migrants-immigration-enforcement-a24389b7fd7875ef98b4ab45c14e8418 https://apnews.com/article/chicago-ice-raids-trump-immigrant-community-b3b276656067b5302bed7dfcaf950f57 [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking reproductive rights facilities, calling the cases an example [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder https://apnews.com/article/oath-keepers-founder-jan-6-trial-4372b311695c401255c6881111ff4f41 from entering Washington without the court's approval after President Donald Trump commuted the extremist group leader's 18-year [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on https://apnews.com/hub/civil-rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration, [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The https://apnews.com/hub/us-department-of-justice has ordered federal prosecutors to investigate state or local officials who they believe are interfering with the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration, saying they could [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order Monday on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes https://apnews.com/projects/january-6-cases/, including people [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses on his way out of the White House, saying Monday that his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge who oversaw https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc denounced efforts to rewrite https://apnews.com/projects/january-6-cases/ Friday as she handed down what she acknowledged may be one of the final punishments for [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department, https://apnews.com/article/gaetz-trump-fbi-justice-department-248b46ba0c882dd46d661568e8bd3bd7, is set to face questions on Capitol Hill on Wednesday over her loyalty to the Republican president-elect, who [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The criminal charges against https://apnews.com/hub/hunter-biden “were the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics,” the prosecutor who led the probes said in https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25486004-report-of-special-counsel-weiss-january-2025/ that sharply criticized [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday denied a bid to block the public release of https://apnews.com/article/trump-jack-smith-jan-6-c788ac8bd4c5b4c4add2338d692d45e0 on President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's the https://interactives.ap.org/jan-6-prosecutions/ in Justice Department history — with reams of evidence, harrowing videos and https://apnews.com/projects/january-6-cases/ of the rioters who stormed the https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege. Now Donald Trump's return [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee's https://apnews.com/politics/matt-gaetz-house-ethics-report-00000193f4ccde25add3f4dd46e30000 on https://apnews.com/article/who-is-matt-gaetz-trump-attorney-general-21a399a8563ce80ec682505a1f5b9ca2 documents a trove of https://apnews.com/article/matt-gaetz-congress-ethics-report-538cb5387bf95925245bf87fa6b1adcb, including sex with an underage girl, that https://apnews.com/article/gaetz-trump-fbi-justice-department-248b46ba0c882dd46d661568e8bd3bd7. Citing text messages, travel receipts, online payments [...]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A federal investigation launched after the https://apnews.com/hub/tyre-nichols found that the Memphis Police Department routinely uses force in situations where it's not warranted and disproportionately targets Black [...]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and discriminates against Black people, according to the findings of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation launched after the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President https://apnews.com/hub/joe-biden had long pledged that he would not pardon his son, Hunter, who was set to be sentenced this month for gun and tax convictions. But […]

Byline: ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER; ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Matt Gaetz withdrew Thursday as president-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney-general amid continued fallout over a federal sex trafficking investigation [...]

Byline: ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER; ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- The judge overseeing Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case made public Friday a heavily redacted trove of documents that provide [...]

Byline: ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, STEPHANY MATAT; ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a golf course in Florida left [...]

Byline: AMY TAXIN, DEEPA BHARATH, ALEX VEIGA, CLAUDIA LAUER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER; ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter pleaded guilty Thursday to federal tax charges, a [...]

Byline: AMY TAXIN, DEEPA BHARATH, ALEX VEIGA, CLAUDIA LAUER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER; ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter pleaded guilty Thursday to federal tax charges, a [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A high-ranking leader of a Mexican drug cartel who lived in the U.S. under a phony identity after faking his own death has been arrested on federal [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's choice of https://apnews.com/article/who-is-matt-gaetz-trump-attorney-general-21a399a8563ce80ec682505a1f5b9ca2 to be attorney general has many Justice Department employees reeling, worried not only about their own jobs but the future of the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, was once embroiled in a https://apnews.com/article/politicians-in-crisis-refuse-to-resign-16046aff55900e97f59aec9aa5153df6 by the Justice Department he's been tapped to lead, [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump's https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc any remaining court deadlines Friday while prosecutors assess the “the appropriate course going forward” in light of the https://apnews.com/article/election-day-trump-harris-white-house-83c8e246ab97f5b97be45cdc156af4e2 Special Counsel [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith is evaluating how to wind down the https://apnews.com/projects/trump-investigations-civil-criminal-tracker/ before the president-elect takes office in light of longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Republican-led states say they will block the Justice Department's election monitors from going inside polling places on Election Day, pushing back on federal authorities' https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-rights-government-and-politics-a6ac1197dd47f784536c410a8d902bea of [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The man suspected of https://apnews.com/article/vote-ballot-drop-box-democracy-fire-f66c52f774955106fb9e7c8172825cff in Oregon and Washington state is an experienced metalworker and may be planning additional attacks, authorities said Wednesday. Investigators believe the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former members of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group, including a heavy metal band guitarist, avoided prison time Friday for their roles in the https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege after [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A child psychiatrist who altered a first-day-of-school photo he saw on Facebook to make a group of girls appear nude. A U.S. Army soldier accused of creating [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The owner and manager of the cargo ship that caused the deadly https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-53169b379820032f832de4016c655d1b have agreed to pay more than $102 million in cleanup costs to settle a [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida is suing the Justice Department to stop federal authorities from blocking https://apnews.com/article/trump-assassination-attempt-fbi-florida-ryan-routh-desantis-f0852cfc0dcb3d66d3d051838e63276c into the https://apnews.com/article/trump-shooting-gunshots-florida-f62f8378d3a8ce7b2e99d6a8fb40aba9. On Wednesday, the state's Republican Attorney General https://apnews.com/article/abortion-ashley-moody-florida-politics-0db0a1a4deb47fa1b82410b7670b16e3 filed a complaint [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc made public Friday a heavily redacted trove of documents that provide a small glimpse into the evidence prosecutors will present if the case [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama man was arrested Thursday for his alleged role in the https://apnews.com/article/sec-bitcoin-gary-gensler-etf-hacked-b037c80938c564cad36f91beb888290e of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account that led the price [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A year that began with the prospect of a federal court reckoning for https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump will conclude without any chance at trial, leaving voters without the finality of [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-department-indictment-classified-documents-miami-8315a5b23c18f27083ed64eef21efff3 leveled one jaw-dropping allegation after another, including that he showed off a secret Pentagon attack plan to guests at his golf club and suggested his [...]