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President Trump has sent federal agents to cities experiencing a spike in violence. But critics worry the White House is using crime and protests for political advantage in an election year.

Attorney General Barr has tasked U.S. Attorney John Durham with investigating the origins of the Russia probe. Durham will look into the intelligence gathering aimed at the Trump campaign in 2016.

According to newly unsealed court documents, President Trump's former national security adviser Mike Flynn gave investigators evidence about alleged White House interference with the Russia probe.

A former bureau attorney is alleged to have doctored evidence to enable the surveillance of an ex-junior foreign policy aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Attorney General William Barr says he won't take any action to influence the presidential election, but looming in the background is a probe apparently focused on the Obama administration.

White House supporters want to move on, and opponents anticipate the full document may tell a different story than Attorney General Bill Barr's.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller gives his first public statement since the release of his office's report. He emphasized the report's finding that Russians launched an attack on our political system.

President Trump says he'll announce his pick for the Supreme Court this week, and it will likely be a woman. It's also likely to be the most contentious court nomination in history.

The Justice Department has told Congress the special counsel found no prosecutable case of conspiracy or collusion against the president and his campaign. The obstruction issue is more complicated.

This summer marks the 150th anniversary of the Justice Department. But veterans of the department warn the norms developed to insulate prosecutions from politics have been demolished.

Judge Alison Nathan wrote she fears government lapses in an Iranian sanctions case may have revealed broader problems with how prosecutors disclose evidence to defendants.

Attorney General William Barr is directing the Bureau of Prisons to resume capital punishment in the federal prison system.

The Department of Justice says ransomware attacks on small and mid-sized local governments by criminal groups are becoming more sophisticated. The agency is warning municipalities to be ready.

Andrew Weissmann, one of the best-known lawyers in special counsel Robert Mueller's office, is set to depart soon from that job and the Justice Department, NPR has learned.

The former acting director of the bureau also tells NPR that he and Justice Department leaders were so rattled following the dismissal of James Comey they struggled with how to respond.

Paul Manafort's lawyers botched redactions in a court filing, revealing the information. Separately, the Supreme Court denied a request believed to be a challenge to special counsel Robert Mueller.

A federal judge declined to assign himself to a case as sought by Jerome Corsi as part of a lawsuit against Robert Mueller. Corsi has said he rejected a guilty plea with prosecutors.

Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad is accused of violating American sanctions laws against Iran, but prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are backing away nearly three months after convicting him.

A federal judge said on Tuesday she needs more information about the kinds of alleged lies that Paul Manafort told prosecutors in order to determine whether he has blown up his plea deal.

A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned a superseding indictment with 17 more charges against the founder of WikiLeaks in connection with leaks by Chelsea Manning.

Special counsel Robert Mueller hasn't recommended any more indictments in his report submitted Friday. It's not yet clear what he found about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The Russian woman apparently was part of an effort to build clandestine ties between Moscow and important parts of the conservative establishment.

The attorney general has ordered "full and equal protection" for such couples, a move that has far-reaching repercussions for how they're treated in federal proceedings.

The appointee, named after President Trump forced out his predecessor, may go ahead because he served at a sufficiently high level within the DOJ for more than a year, the legal office says.

Senators are scheduled to vote Monday — just days before Election Day — to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left open by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death.