Department of Justice

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s constitutionality plays out in the courts.

The Justice Department says it’s reviewing an earlier decision to decline prosecution against two former FBI agents embroiled in the Larry Nassar sexual abuse cases after new information has emerged

Twenty years since the Sept. 11 attacks brings a different kind of anniversary for hundreds of Muslim men and their families

The Justice Department is suing to stop American Airlines and JetBlue from coordinating their flights in the Northeast

A prominent cybersecurity lawyer has been charged in the special counsel’s probe of the U.S. government’s investigation into Russian election interference The lawyer is accused of making false statements to the FBI

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice is suing Texas over S.B. 8, the state’s controversial law banning abortions before many people know they’re pregnant.

The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.”

The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall over whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev can be put to death.

The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging bans involving transgender people that target athletes in West Virginia and children in Arkansas

Despite President Joe Biden’s public opposition to capital punishment, his administration supported an appeal first filed by his predecessor in a 48-page brief filed with the Supreme Court.

John Demers will leave his position by the end of next week, a Justice Department official told The Associated Press on Monday. The resignation comes amid questions about what Demers knew about the Justice Department’s efforts to secretly seize the phone data from House Democrats and reporters as part of the aggressive investigations into leaks.

The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of four New York Times reporters as part of a leak investigation

President Joe Biden is taking executive action to ensure minorities, low-income Americans and others have better access to quality legal representation after services dwindled during the Trump administration

The Justice Department has assembled a task force to confront ransomware after what officials say was the costliest year on record for the crippling cyberattacks.

The Justice Department on Friday sued Roger Stone, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, accusing Stone and his wife of owing nearly $2 million in unpaid income taxes. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says the couple underpaid their income taxes by $1,590,361 from 2007 to 2011. It further says Stone did not pay…

The former manager of the San Diego Home Cooking restaurant chain was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for failing to pay employment taxes over a period of several years.

The Justice Department has finalized its first plan to help address the problem of missing and murdered Native people on one of the largest reservations in Montana

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, a prominent conservative representing Florida in Congress and a close ally of former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday he is being investigated by the Justice Department over a former relationship but denied any criminal wrongdoing.

A federal prosecutor told a judge Tuesday that the Justice Department is investigating Michael Sherwin, the former U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., for comments he made during a “60 Minutes” interview about the U.S. Capitol Riot probes.

The Justice Department asked a federal judge Friday for more time to investigate the Capitol riot before having to proceed to trial in several cases, including the prosecution of nine people accused of being followers or members of the Oath Keepers and joining in the attack