White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday said President Trump has the power to fire special counsel Robert Mueller as Democrats demanded legislative protections for Mr. Mueller and the team investigating the Russian meddling probe. Published April 10, 2018
Seven executives at the classified advertising site Backpage.com have been indicted on 93 counts, including promoting prostitution and money laundering. Published April 9, 2018
The FBI on Monday raided the office of Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime personal attorney, provoking a bitter rebuke from the president that the special counsel's Russia probe had entered a "whole new level of unfairness." Published April 9, 2018
The federal judge overseeing the D.C. case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort denied his request for bail Monday. Published April 9, 2018
A Manassas, Virginia, man pleaded guilty Monday to paying women in the Philippines to sexually abuse children as young as 6 so he could produce child pornography, the Justice Department said. Published April 9, 2018
The Department of Justice has tapped John Lausch, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, to oversee the process of turning over subpoenaed documents to congressional committees. Published April 9, 2018
As criticism mounted for its delay in providing documents to multiple congressional panels on FBI investigations of the 2016 presidential election, the Department of Justice has invited committee members to review the files at its headquarters. Published April 8, 2018
As criticism mounts for its delay in turning over documents detailing FBI investigations surrounding the 2016 presidential election to separate House and Senate Committees, the Department of Justice has invited committee members to review the files at its headquarters. Published April 6, 2018
The federal government has shut down Backpage.com and the homes of the Arizona-based owners of the controversial website repeatedly accused of facilitating and even promoting prostitution and sex trafficking. Published April 6, 2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed in a Thursday night court filing that information obtained from Paul Manafort's personal belongings -- including five telephone numbers -- are being used in other investigations of Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. Published April 6, 2018
The Justice Department has missed the Thursday deadline to give the House Judiciary Committee nearly 1.2 million documents related to FBI investigations surrounding the 2016 election, despite a subpoena, a congressman has confirmed. Published April 6, 2018
President Trump reportedly weighed replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Scott Pruitt as recently as this week, even as scandals grow around the embattled Environmental Protection Agency head. Published April 5, 2018
Three East Los Angeles men Thursday agreed to plead guilty to federal hate crime charges in connection to the May 2014 firebombing of African-American residences at the Ramona Gardens Housing Development in Los Angeles, the Justice Department said. Published April 5, 2018
Two Orlando-area men were sentenced Thursday in federal court for pretending to be Homeland Security agents and entrapping victims in an online dating scam, federal prosecutors in Florida announced. Published April 5, 2018
An MS-13 gang member pleaded guilty Thursday to firearms charges in connection with a July 2014 murder in Long Island, New York, community of Brentwood, the Department of Justice announced. Published April 5, 2018
A Chinese scientist was sentenced to 121 months in federal prison Wednesday for conspiring to steal genetically-modified rice seeds from a Kansas research facility, the Justice Department said. Published April 4, 2018
The Department of Justice is seeking to strip the citizenship from two Yugoslav nationals convicted of war crimes, including the murder of civilians and prisoners, for their actions in the early 1990s Balkans conflict. Published April 4, 2018
Federal agents seized about 142 pounds of methamphetamine in the Cleveland suburb of Hudson, Ohio, in what is believed to be the largest meth bust in state history, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. Published April 3, 2018
Dutch attorney Alexander Van der Zwaan was ordered Tuesday to serve 30 days in jail and pay a $20,000 fine in the first sentencing flowing from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Published April 3, 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice said Monday it wants to participate in settlement talks in a federal court case involving hundreds of lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors. Published April 2, 2018
