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Passports belonging to Donald Trump have been returned to the former president after last week’s FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home, a Justice Department official told NBC News on Monday. The FBI acknowledged it had had the passports the same day Trump said on his social media platform that FBI agents who conducted the search on Aug. 8 took them. A property receipt from the FBI search...

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention said Friday that several of the denomination’s major entities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice in the wake of its multiple problems related to clergy sex abuse. The SBC’s Executive Committee has received a subpoena, but no individuals have been subpoenaed at this point, according to the committee’s lawyers. “This...

Former President Donald Trump is calling for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland made a statement about the FBI search at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on Thursday.

NBC 6’s Cristian Benavides has the latest on the FBI search of former President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home.

All four have been charged with civil rights violations in the death of the 26-year-old medical worker, who was shot to death by officers executing a search warrant.

The Justice Department has filed suit against Peter Navarro, claiming the former adviser to Donald Trump used an unofficial email account while working in the White House and wrongfully retained presidential records. The lawsuit in federal court in Wash

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Idaho to block the state’s restrictive abortion law, saying it violated federal law requiring hospitals to provide necessary stabilizing treatment – including abortion – to people suffering from an emergency medical condition.

The House Jan. 6 committee will share 20 of its interview transcripts with the Justice Department as federal prosecutors have been increasingly focused on efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the election.

The inquiry is related to the DOJ’s broader probe of efforts overturn the 2020 election results and not a criminal investigation of Trump himself, an administration official said.

During her closing statement at Tuesday’s January 6 committee hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., revealed that former President Donald Trump called a witness after a prior hearing.

The SEC is investigating whether Digital World and Trump Media held substantial discussions before the special-purpose acquisition company went public last year, in violation of its SPAC status

Donald Trump hounded the Justice Department to pursue his false election fraud claims, striving in vain to enlist top law enforcement officials in his desperate bid to stay in power and relenting only when warned in the Oval Office of mass resignations, according to testimony Thursday to the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. NBC10’s Rosemary Connors...

Former Department of Justice officials Jeffrey Rosen and Richard Donoghue testified before a House committee Thursday that then- President Donald Trump wanted the DOJ to seize voting machines.

Former Attorney General Richard Donoghue testified Thursday before the House select committee, providing meeting notes with direct quotes from former President Donald Trump on his scheme to overturn the 2020 election. “Just say the election was corrupt, and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.”

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., spoke Thursday at a hearing on the U.S. Capitol Riot to detail former President Donald Trump’s efforts to use the Department of Justice to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. “Their only hope would be a last-ditch scheme to prevent Congress from certifying the win, thus throwing the entire system into constitutional chaos.”

Federal law enforcement investigators were at the Virginia home of Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who then-President Donald Trump sought to install as attorney general after leaders at the agency refused to go along with Trump’s bogus election fraud claims.

The DOJ claimed that Meta targeted users with housing ads based on algorithms that relied partly on characteristics protected under the Fair Housing Act.

The House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Friday it’s cooperating with a Justice Department request to share transcripts of their witness interviews. The committee is “engaged in a cooperative process to address the needs of the Department of Justice. We are not inclined to share the details of that publicly,” the panel said in a statement. “We believe accountability is...

The Justice Department on Wednesday is releasing new details in its review of the law enforcement response to the deadly mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.