JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

In all of the sordid detail the House committee heard in its last session this month, there was evidence that the reforms after the Nixon era helped save the day.

The House is expected to pass legislation that cleared the Senate on Thursday that includes modest new firearms restrictions and mental health and school security funding.

The former Justice Department official accused of trying to help President Trump overturn the 2020 election lashed out against the FBI agents who raided his home.

The hearing presented findings that former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark sought to help Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

The hearing presented findings that former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark sought to help Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Former Justice Department officials described the relentless pressure Trump put on them to find evidence of voter fraud when it didn't exist and a tense showdown in the Oval Office.

I thought Trump made up 'stolen election' lies. But after Thursday's Jan. 6 hearing, I learned he 'followed the internet.' That's a game changer.

Witnesses in today's hearing revealed details of a dramatic Oval Office meeting on Jan. 3, 2021.

Those involved with the insurrection have repeatedly pointed to Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) as the chief conduit for the House GOP Conference to the White House in Trump’s quest to overturn his defeat.

Clark is believed to have been key to efforts by President Trump and his allies to delay certification of the 2020 election.

In his first television interview since his deposition with the Jan. 6 committee, filmmaker Alex Holder described former President Trump's behavior after the riot and said Trump saw violence on Jan 6. as an "inevitability." Watch Norah O'Donnell's interview.

During a public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue said he told then-President Donald Trump that if he appointed Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general, there would be hundreds of DOJ resignations.

At the fifth public hearing of the House select committee investigating January 6, Republican committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger, former Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, and former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen discussed President Trump's insistence that federal officials pursue a "wild, baseless conspiracy theory" about an Italian satellite switching ballots.

Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, confirmed the existence of law enforcement activity on Wednesday.

Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, confirmed the existence of law enforcement activity on Wednesday.

Donald Trump was the trigger for the effort to block Joe Biden's presidency. But he had an enormous amount of help.

On Wednesday, U.S. swimming coach Andrea Fuentes rescued an artistic swimmer, Anita Alvarez, during her solo free routine. The two-time Olympian had fainted.

The law enforcement action comes as the Jan 6 committee prepares to detail Trump's pressure campaign to install Clark as acting attorney general.

Clark, a lawyer, was deeply involved in efforts to get the Department of Justice to embrace President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud.

The hearing is the fifth this month by the House committee investigating the run-up to the insurrection at the Capitol.

The hearing is the fifth this month by the House committee investigating the run-up to the insurrection at the Capitol.

Efforts to pressure Justice Department officials to embrace false election-fraud claims will be the focus of a hearing by the House select committee.

Former top Justice Department officials have testified to the Jan. 6 committee that President Donald Trump hounded the department to pursue his false election fraud claims.

Several defendants and prosecutors warned that the planned release of a public report and witness transcripts from the high-profile House investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack could upend trial preparations

Prosecutors appear focused on how political activists supporting President Donald Trump tried to use invalid electors to thwart Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.

Powell’s nonprofit organization, Defending the Republic, has raised millions spreading election falsehoods.

The Jan. 6 hearings, which had been scheduled to wrap up Thursday, may stretch well into the summer, a committee member says.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers say the high-profile Jan. 6 congressional hearings could jeopardize fairness in upcoming criminal trials.

Tuesday's Jan. 6 committee hearing focuses on former president Donald Trump's role in pressuring state officials to overturn the 2020 election results.

Peyton Gendron, who is accused of authoring a racist replacement-theory rant and killing 10 Black people, could be eligible for the death penalty if convicted on the federal charges.

The Department of Justice has filed multiple federal hate crimes charges against the alleged Buffalo mass shooter Payton Gendron.

In May, 10 people were killed in a racially motivated attack at Tops market in Buffalo. The Justice Department is investigating it as a potential hate crime.

Jeffrey Rosen and Richard Donoghue, then-top DOJ officials, had previously rejected Clark's attempts to investigate baseless claims of election fraud.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol has postponed a hearing that was to feature Trump-era Justice Department officials.

Jeffrey Clark, a mid-level Justice Department official, wanted Trump to name him attorney general in a plan aimed at potentially overturning the election.

As the January 6th hearings unfold, a former U.S. Attorney discusses the possibility of criminally prosecuting the former President.

Former attorney general aimed a rhetorical dagger at Donald Trump, a man he spent years defending.

A federal judge's acquittal of a New Mexico man in April was a rare blemish on the Justice Department's record of securing convictions in U.S. Capitol riot cases. Widely published photographs showed Kevin Seefried carrying a Confederate battle flag inside the Capitol after he entered the building with his son, Hunter. The Seefrieds were "early, aggressive and active participants" in the Capitol breach and among the first rioters to enter the bulling on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors have said.

The committee announced that Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Bill Stepien, is among the witnesses scheduled to testify at a hearing Monday.

The committee announced that Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Bill Stepien, is among the witnesses scheduled to testify at a hearing Monday.

Members of the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot say they’ve uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Sunday they have uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “I would like to see the Justice Department investigate any credible allegation of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a committee member who also leads the House Intelligence Committee. “There are certain actions, parts of these different lines of effort to overturn the election that I don’t see evidence the Justice Department is investigating.”

The number of people sentenced for crimes in the Capitol insurrection is nearing 200.

The number of people sentenced for crimes in the Capitol insurrection is nearing 200.

As the number of people sentenced for crimes in the U.S. Capitol insurrection nears 200, an Associated Press analysis of sentencing data shows that some judges are divided over how to punish the rioters, particularly for the low-level misdemeanors arising from the attack.

An Ohio couple climbed through a broken window of the U.S. Capitol and livestreamed a video of themselves inside. Federal prosecutors did not seek prison time for any of them after they pleaded guilty to petty offenses for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan put them all behind bars, describing it as the appropriate punishment for their participation in the riot that halted the certification of President Joe Biden's victory, sent lawmakers running for their lives and left dozens of police officers beaten and bloodied.

The Biden administration directive instructed ICE to focus on arresting immigrants deemed to threaten public safety or national security and recent border-crossers.

The Jan. 6 House select committee made the allegation in a hearing Thursday night.

The Justice Department is pushing back on an assertion from former Trump White House official Peter Navarro, who had claimed he was denied access to an attorney when he was arrested on contempt charges last week.

The Justice Department on Thursday pushed back on an assertion from former Trump White House official Peter Navarro, who had claimed he was denied access to an attorney when he was arrested on contempt charges last week. In a court filing, the Justice Department alleged that Navarro lied to the judge and to members of the media by claiming he was told he couldn’t call a lawyer and that he was denied food and water while being held for several hours after his arrest on Friday. Navarro was indicted on charges that he refused to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In a series of hearings scheduled to begin Thursday and last throughout the month, they’ll tell the story of how the attack unfolded and Trump and his allies’ role in it.

Few people are ever prosecuted for lying on a key form required for gun purchases, according to Justice Department records provided to The Fact Checker.

The review is being undertaken at the request of the mayor of Uvalde, in the wake of the recent mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.

Their accountant, Peter Tarantino, was also found guilty of a number of tax crimes.

Their accountant, Peter Tarantino, was also found guilty of a number of tax crimes.

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro has been indicted on charges that he refused to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Since the Columbine High School massacre more than 20 years ago, police have been trained to quickly confront shooters in the horrific attacks that have followed.

Justice Department to conduct review of law enforcement response to Texas school shooting and make findings public.

The Justice Department says it'll review the law enforcement response to the Texas school shooting.

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on policing Wednesday, the second anniversary of George Floyd's death.

The House has passed legislation that would devote more federal resources to preventing domestic terrorism in response to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is rejecting a request from the Justice Department for access to the committee’s interviews, for now.

Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee have asked the Justice Department to investigate whether a Trump administration interior secretary engaged in possible criminal conduct while helping an Arizona developer get a crucial permit for a housing project.

A prominent national criminal justice advocacy group is pushing the Justice Department to support the release of women who were sexually abused by staff at a federal women’s prison in California.

More than 140 former Justice Department officials are throwing their support behind President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency, the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Chief Justice John Roberts, in ordering an investigation into an “egregious breach of trust” in the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion, has tasked a relatively unknown court official to carry out what could be one of the most high-profile investigations in decades.

Some airlines say they will consider refunds or credits for passengers who don't want to fly now that the mask mandate has been dropped.

The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes and trains and in travel hubs.

A ruling by a judge in Florida means that the federal requirement to wear masks on airplanes and public transportation appears to be dead.

The Justice Department says it will not appeal a federal district judge’s ruling that ended the nation’s federal mask mandate on public transit unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the requirement is still necessary.

The Biden administration has released hundreds of strategies it's taking or will take to boost equity across the federal government.

Conservative group Project Veritas says the Justice Department had secretly obtained from Apple and Google personal information as part of an ongoing investigation into how the organization received a diary purported to belong to President Joe Biden’s daughter.

The Biden administration is unveiling a completed rule aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers.

President Joe Biden is taking fresh aim at “ghost guns,” the privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up in violent crimes.

President Joe Biden is nominating an Obama-era U.S. attorney to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

A “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” TV star, a Paralympic swimmer and a self-described “brand king” were among the Instagram and TikTok influencers who were paid by Chinese officials for a discreet campaign that promoted the Beijing Winter Olympics, new Justice Department documents reveal.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has tested positive for COVID-19 and will quarantine at home for five days.

The Justice Department has charged a Russian oligarch with sanctions violations and has taken down a cybercrime operation controlled by a Russian military intelligence agency.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says the Justice Department has closed without criminal charges an investigation into political fundraising activity at his former business.

A fifth worker at a federal women’s prison in California has been charged with sexually abusing an inmate, and prosecutors say more arrests are expected at the lockup.

Five people accused of acting on behalf of the Chinese government have been charged with plotting to stalk and harass Chinese dissidents living in the United States.

Relatives of Emmett Till are asking authorities to reverse their decision to close an investigation of his 1955 lynching and instead prosecute a white woman at the center of the case.

The Justice Department has named a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud, following through on President Joe Biden’s State of the Union promise to go after criminals who stole billions in relief money.

The United States and allies are stepping up sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

One of the nation’s leading police research groups is calling on the Justice Department to study how police use less-lethal weapons like tear gas and bean-bag guns.

The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding Attorney General Merrick Garland take immediate action to reform the beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons.

Classified information has been found in the 15 boxes of White House records that were stored at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

The Justice Department is launching a new initiative aimed at identifying companies that exploit supply chain disruptions in the U.S. to make increased profits in violation of federal antitrust laws.

Revelations that Donald Trump took government records with him to Mar-a-Lago is a political headache for the former president and a potential legal one too.

The Justice Department has announced its largest-ever financial seizure — more than $3.5 billion — and the arrests of a New York couple accused of conspiring to launder billions of dollars in cryptocurrency.

President Joe Biden is considering expanding a policy that limits the use of “no-knock” warrants for certain federal agents.

The Justice Department is signaling it might be open to allowing so-called safe injection sites, or safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fatal overdoses.

The Justice Department says it will not reopen the federal investigation into the 2014 death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot to death by Cleveland police.

FBI Director Christopher Wray says the threat to the West from the Chinese government is “more brazen” and damaging than ever before.

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has thanked his supporters after the Justice Department said it was dropping its case against him.

U.S. competition regulators have mounted an effort to tighten enforcement against illegal mergers, in line with President Joe Biden’s mandate for greater scrutiny to big business combinations.

The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism.

Lani Guinier, a civil rights lawyer and scholar whose nomination by President Bill Clinton to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division was pulled after conservatives criticized her views on correcting racial discrimination, has died.

Treasure hunters who believe they found a huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania are now on the prowl for something as elusive as the buried booty itself: government records of the FBI’s excavation.