Former Arkansas legislator Henry Wilkins IV pleaded guilty Monday to accepting over $80,000 in bribes from lobbyists to vote for specific bills, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Published April 30, 2018
Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against President Trump, who called her claim of being threatened over her alleged affair with the president "a total con job." Published April 30, 2018
A federal grand jury indicted 57 members of various violent white supremacist gangs in North Texas with drug trafficking and kidnapping charges, the Justice Department announced Monday. Published April 30, 2018
A federal grand jury Monday indicted an officer at the Miami-Dade juvenile lockup in Miami for his role in the beating death of a 17-year-old inmate. Published April 30, 2018
A Panasonic Corp. subsidiary will pay about $280 million to settle civil and criminal charges that the company falsified financial records to conceal payments to sales representatives working in China and other Asian countries, the Department of Justice said Monday Published April 30, 2018
The Department of Justice has revised its U.S. attorneys' manual by removing language about press freedom and racial gerrymandering, according to a media report. Published April 30, 2018
Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates and her top lieutenant, Principal Assistant Deputy Attorney General Matthew Axelrod, refused to answer questions this week about whether they tried to squelch an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation during the final months of the 2016 campaign. Published April 27, 2018
A federal judge Friday tossed former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's lawsuit challenging the authority of special counsel Robert Mueller. Published April 27, 2018
Four Chinese nationals are among 10 new defendants who were indicted in a widening probe of fentanyl shipments from China to the United States that resulted in the deaths of four people and multiple overdoses, the Department of Justice said Friday. Published April 27, 2018
Text messages exchanged by two anti-Trump FBI officials that were previously thought lost were delivered to at least five congressional committees late Thursday night. Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two married FBI officials who were having an affair, ranted against the president in the more than 50,000 texts they exchanged with each other. Published April 26, 2018
Gun buyback programs have proven so popular that the government is trying the same approach with drugs, asking people to turn in unused opioids, hoping to get them out of people's medicine cabinets before they are used to feed someone's addiction. Published April 26, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced a bipartisan grilling from senators Wednesday over whether the federal government would interfere with state marijuana laws, but refused to provide an answer. Published April 25, 2018
Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney, said in court papers Wednesday he will assert his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination in an investigation involving his payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels. Published April 25, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions declined to say Wednesday if he has recused himself from the investigation into President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen. Published April 25, 2018
FBI Director Christopher Wray dismissed criticism that has been heaped on the bureau, saying outside of Washington, the agency's brand "couldn't be higher." Published April 24, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will not recuse himself from the investigation into President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, according to a media report Tuesday. Published April 24, 2018
An Indiana man who advertised minors for sex on controversial classified advertising website Backpage.com was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday, the Department of Justice said. Published April 24, 2018
An alleged Colombian drug kingpin whom prosecutors say shipped tons of cocaine destined for the U.S. will be arraigned Tuesday in a federal courtroom in New York. Published April 24, 2018
A search of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's storage locker was legal because a business associate who signed a lease for the unit allowed the FBI inside, prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office said in court filing late Monday night. Published April 24, 2018
Nearly one month after two congressional committees issued subpoenas, the Department of Justice has agreed to hand over documents related to investigative decisions it made surrounding the 2016 election, the chairmen of those committees said late Monday. Published April 23, 2018
