The Justice Department has reassigned key senior officials across multiple divisions as part of a leadership shakeup ahead of the expected confirmation of President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney ...

Republicans are bending over backward to excuse Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons of the January 6 insurrectionists.

The former national security advisor has faced threats from Iran going back years, including an alleged assassination plot.

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

The order is titled “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” but it asserts that the Biden administration might ...

Derek Maltz, a veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is expected to help lead Trump's effort to fight fentanyl traffickers with terror laws.

President Donald Trump’s political retribution tour began this week with firings of his perceived enemies inside the federal ...

It’s debatable which president’s abuse of the pardon power on Monday — Joe Biden’s or Donald Trump’s — was more damaging. But ...

In one of his last official acts, former President Joe Biden early Monday pardoned members of the House committee that ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

Danielle Sassoon, who earlier in her career was a law clerk for conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, was ...

Those who have been sidelined at the DOJ headquarters in Washington include senior lawyers in the criminal division as well ...