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The international investment bank Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $2.9 billion and admit wrongdoing for its involvement in the plundering of an economic development fund meant to benefit Malaysia, under the terms of a settlement announced Thursday by the U.S. Justice Department. Instead of helping develop Malaysia’s economy, the fund’s overseers embezzled roughly $4 billion and bought real estate...

An attorney for E. Jean Carroll, the woman who has accused President Trump of raping her in the 1990s, said it was a “shocking scenario for the government to just, essentially surrender, and not even try to argue the case.”

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that Purdue Pharma agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges for their marketing of OxyContin.

The U.S. Justice Department has announced an antitrust civil suit against tech giant Google.

The Department of Justice is using aggressive tactics against those it has charged in the civil unrest over racism.

Seven suspected gang members were indicted Thursday on 37 counts in the killings of two men and alleged drug trafficking involving teenagers in Northern Virginia, federal prosecutors say. In one case, members of the group are accused of abducting a 21-year-old from a mall in Fairfax County and killing him before he was set to testify against a member.  The…

A Justice Department investigation has found Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of federal civil rights law, officials said Thursday.

The Justice Department will investigate the actions of its law enforcement officers toward Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon, and D.C. News4’s Jackie Bensen spoke to a protester who will carry the physical scars for some time.

Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was announced at the start of a hearing in a federal lawsuit in Boston brought by…

The Justice Department is urging U.S. attorneys nationwide to use federal courts — where more serious charges are available — to prosecute people suspected of violence or property damage during the protests over George Floyd’s death....

Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that federal agents have arrested 51 people for acts of violence since the protests began. The U.S. Marshals service...

Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Kelly Loeffler of Georgia and Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma have been informed that the Justice Department has closed investigations into their stock trades.

A federal judge has agreed to impose financial sanctions against the Trump administration for failing to produce hundreds of documents during litigation over whether a citizenship question could be added to the 2020 census

Court papers show a West Virginia woman who had already been accused of kidnapping her daughter faces a new charge of retaining top-secret information from the National Security Agency in a storage unit she leased.

The U.S. Justice Department is siding with a rural Virginia church that sued the state’s governor after the pastor was charged with violating a social distancing order, NBC News reported.

Victims of Bernard Madoff will receive an additional $378.5 million in funds forfeited to the government in connection with his decades-long Ponzi scheme, the Justice Department said. This distribution is the fifth in a series of payouts that will eventually return more than $4 billion to victims as compensation for losses they suffered from the collapse of the Bernard L….

The Justice Department’s inspector general has found additional problems with the accuracy of wiretap applications the FBI has submitted in national security investigations

A Tennessee man who served as an armed guard at a concentration camp in Nazi Germany during World War II was ordered deported to Germany, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. Friedrich Karl Berger, a German citizen, was ordered to be removed from the United States by an immigration judge in Memphis. U.S. Immigration Judge Rebecca L. Holt...

The FBI has not done enough to identify and fight homegrown extremists, the Department of Justice’s internal watchdog said Wednesday. The agency also failed to follow up on some cases that had been flagged as potential threats to the country, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote in his report, as reported by NBC News. “The FBI has not...

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., presses Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf about details related the spread of COVID-19. 

Wells Fargo, the nation’s fourth-largest bank, agreed Friday to pay a $3 billion fine to settle a civil lawsuit and resolve a criminal prosecution filed by the Justice Department over its fake account scandal. Under pressure to meet sales quotas, bank employees opened millions of savings and checking accounts in the names of actual customers, without their knowledge or consent....