U.S. Justice Department

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to dismiss three lawsuits over a Trump-era immigration policy that led some areas to declare themselves “sanctuary cities,” NBC News reports.

President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general is set for his confirmation hearing vowing to prioritize civil rights, combat extremist attacks and ensure the Justice Department remains politically independent

Top former Justice Department officials, including U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy Rod Rosenstein, helped drive a Trump administration policy that resulted in the separation of children from their parents, a draft inspector general report shows.

Attorney General William Barr is taking aim at his own Justice Department, criticizing prosecutors for behaving as “headhunters” in their pursuit of prominent targets and politically charged cases.

Five officers are dead — four Dallas police officers and one Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer — in what authorities called a sniper ambush on police officers at the end of a peaceful protest against nationwide officer-involved shootings Thursday night.

The disgraced former mayor of Baltimore pleaded guilty Thursday to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges in a case involving sales of her self-published children’s books.

The U.S. Department of Justice opened a sweeping antitrust investigation of major technology companies and whether their online platforms have hurt competition, suppressed innovation or otherwise harmed consumers. It said the probe will take into account “widespread concerns” about social media, search engines and online retail services. Its antitrust division is seeking information from the public, including those in the...

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned Thursday following controversy about the sale of her self-published children’s books to entities that had business with the city. Erika Gonzalez explains why the mayor didn’t make the announcement herself.

D.C. leaders’ new plan to crack down on gun violence in the involves the U.S. Justice Department. Scott MacFarlane reports the feds have pounced on dozens of cases.

Federal prosecutors in Virginia are preparing to file a criminal charge against a former NASA subcontractor suspected of fraud and linked to the failed 2011 launch of the NASA Glory spacecraft.

Prosecutors in Alexandria are preparing to file criminal charges against a company that once worked as a subcontractor for NASA. The exact charges have yet to be announced, but Scott MacFarlane learned the company is under investigation for fraud that might be linked to a failed rocket launch in 2011.

Ecuador has denied WikiLeaks’ claims that it is set to expel Julian Assange from its embassy in London, rejecting what it called “an attempt to stain the dignity of the country,” NBC News reported. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, hasn’t left the embassy since 2012. He sought refuge there to avoid arrest and potential extradition to the United States for...

An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 headcount could be reconstructed from encrypted data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday. The age, gender, location, race and ethnicity for 138 million people were potentially vulnerable. So far, however, only internal hacking...

The Supreme Court will decide whether the 2020 census can include a question about citizenship that could affect the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives and the distribution of billions of dollars in federal money. The justices agreed Friday to a speedy review of a lower court ruling that has so far blocked the Trump administration from adding...

Thirteen current and former members of the Prince George’s County Police Department signed on to a federal civil lawsuit filed Wednesday morning in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The civil lawsuit accusing the Prince George’s County Police Department of discrimination and retaliation includes allegations of inappropriate conduct by white police officers. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports.

Thirteen current and former members of the Prince George’s County Police Department signed on to a federal civil lawsuit filed Wednesday morning in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Thirteen Prince George’s County police officers have come forward, accusing department leadership of discrimination and retaliation. The minority officers say they were punished for reporting other officers’ bad behavior. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins has a closer look at what’s in the lawsuit.

The U.S. government is allocating nearly $17 million to help people affected by the Las Vegas Strip mass shooting that became the deadliest in the nation’s modern history, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Friday. The money from the Justice Department will defray costs of counseling, therapy, rehabilitation, trauma recovery and legal aid for thousands of people affected by the...

The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of child sexual abuse inside the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, using subpoenas to demand confidential files and testimony from church leaders, according to two people familiar with the probe.