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The man is accused of using an encrypted messaging application to transmit maps, photographs and satellite imagery to the foreign government, according to court documents.

The Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google nearly three years ago.

More than a dozen people nationally have been charged with threatening election workers by a Justice Department unit trying to stem the tide of violent and graphic threats against people who count and secure the vote.

Donald Trump has now been indicted in a fourth case, with the former president being charged Monday in Georgia over his efforts to overturn his 2020 general election defeat in the state.

There were 19 total defendants, including Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.

Trump was indicted this month on 37 felony charges, including 31 counts under the Espionage Act that accuse him of willfully retaining national defense information.

Although the former president was indicted on seven charges in a probe by Special Counsel Jack Smith, many Republicans on Capitol Hill turned their focus to President Joe Biden.

The New York Republican is the subject of multiple investigations into his finances and other issues.

Sentencing rules imposed in the 1980s have long led to harsher penalties for different forms of cocaine and, experts say, worsened racial inequity in the U.S. justice system.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he was appointing a former federal prosector as special counsel into the Justice Department’s investigations into former President Donald Trump.

Prior to the federal judge’s decision, the publishing industry had been consolidating for years with little interference from the government.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday that the Justice Department has unsealed charges against 13 Chinese government officials for allegedly spying on U.S. prosecutors, facilitating fugitives and working to subvert U.S. intelligence efforts on behalf of the People’s Republic of China.

A U.S. attorney general during President Jimmy Carter’s administration, Benjamin R. Civiletti, has died at age 87. The current attorney general, Merrick Garland, announced the death of his former boss and hailed what he called Civiletti’s “skill, integrity and dedication.” The Baltimore Sun reports that Civiletti died Sunday evening of Parkinson’s at his home in Lutherville, Maryland. In the Carter...

It’s been a long road to the upcoming Capitol riot trial of the the leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers. But the prosecution’s case against Stewart Rhodes covers a lot more than just the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.

Federal agents who seized former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark‘s phone in June were looking for evidence of crimes of making false statements, criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice, according to a new filing. Clark, who former President Donald Trump considered naming U.S. attorney general as part of his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, told officials with...

The Justice Department and Donald Trump’s legal team have proposed candidates to serve as an independent arbiter in the investigation into top-secret information found in an FBI search of the former president’s Florida home. Lawyers for Trump say the so-called special master should review all documents seized by the FBI, but the Justice Department says it does not believe the...

The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate this month and has identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,” according to a court filing Monday.

efore declining to comment on the release of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit, President Joe Biden took a jab at his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who has asserted his stores of classified materials were actually declassified. “I just want you to know, I’ve declassified everything in the world. I can do it, I’m president,” Biden joked. “Come on.”

A judge released a redacted affidavit Friday, outlining the Justice Department’s probable cause for the Aug. 8 search of former President Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago.

A federal magistrate judge ordered the Justice Department to redact portions of affidavit documents relating to the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago in a possible step toward making the search documents public. The Justice Department has until next Thursday to submit redactions to the court.