The U.S. Department of Justice charged four current and former Louisville, Kentucky, police officers with a range of federal crimes in connection with the death of Breonna Taylor. The 26-year-old was killed in her apartment in May 2020 by police executing a search warrant. According to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the alleged crimes include civil…

President Joe Biden is signing an executive order directing the Health and Human Services secretary to help women access abortion services across state lines through Medicaid. The White House said the order is in line with what the Biden administration calls a “bedrock right” to travel across state lines to get an abortion.  It’s the…

As the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol has concluded, many are wondering whether the U.S. Department of Justice, under Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, will prosecute former President Donald Trump for trying to overturn the election. This is uncharted territory for the U.S. government, as a former president has never been…

The ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee has informed the U.S. attorney general and the director of the FBI that he has whistleblower reports of political bias in the Hunter Biden investigation. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote in a letter that multiple FBI whistleblowers told him the agency received derogatory information about the president’s…

Steve Bannon, the onetime adviser and campaign manager for former President Donald Trump, has been found guilty of contempt of Congress following his refusal to comply with the House select committee that is investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol. The trial began Tuesday as Bannon faced two counts of contempt for…

The mega-yachts and luxury real estate seized from Russian oligarchs is worth billions of dollars, yet the Justice Department is limited in what it can do with those assets. Now, the Senate is working on a bipartisan bill to allow proceeds from sanctioned assets to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction. “This illegal amount of money is marked…

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, critics accused the White House of being caught flat footed. Since then, President Biden has signed an executive order designed to protect women’s access to abortion and is considering declaring a public health emergency over the issue. The Department of Justice has even…

Ten months ago–and one week before Russia’s Ukraine invasion–WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained at a Moscow airport and arrested for drug possession. The charges–stemming from the discovery of vape canisters in her luggage by Russian authorities–could result in a 10-year prison sentence. There is pressure on the U.S. to secure her release and Griner…

Inside the federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday, U.S. prosecutors said the Chinese government is paying people living in the U.S. to spy on, harass and intimidate Chinese dissidents. Craig Miller and Derrick Taylor were charged in such a plot. Miller has been at the Department of Homeland Security for 15 years. Taylor worked at DHS…

The Justice Department is suing Arizona over a new voting law that requires residents to prove their citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. The department’s complaint states Arizona’s law violates both Section 6 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and Section 101 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Under the…