NPR speaks with former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance about how the pressure President Trump is putting on the Justice Department undermines the independence of the agency.

Officials are on a winning streak at the high court, in part due to a strategy of selecting cases most likely to find favor with the conservative majority.

Google faces a fresh federal court test on Monday as US government lawyers ask a judge to order the breakup of the search ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prosecutor in Virginia whose monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James has not resulted in criminal charges is resigning under ...

U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert resigned his position Friday amid pressure from President Trump after sources said he refused to ...

Santana, accused of shooting at a Sacramento TV station, faces federal charges after posting bail on state charges, with his lawyer questioning the motives behind the arrest.

History’s path is never linear. But its turns can be very sharp. It is rare to be able to identify the moment when we can say “this is the point at which everything changed”. So have we reached the ...

This is Part I of a three-part series marking the 10th anniversary of the historic sentencing in the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) criminal case.

Trump took to social media to pressure his attorney general to move forward on investigations into three of his adversaries.

"We want religion brought back to America," Donald Trump said. "We want to bring God back into our beautiful U.S.A. like ...

Tom Homan, now the president’s border czar, was recorded last year accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash by undercover FBI agents in an investigation the Trump Justice Department later closed, The New ...

Alongside the extraordinary demand, the president also named his former defense attorney late Saturday to replace the head of ...