Department of Justice

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s constitutionality plays out in the courts.

The U.S. Justice Department is launching a major civils rights investigation into five juvenile correctional facilities run by the state of Texas accused of abuse.

The Justice Department on Wednesday launched an investigation into allegations of widespread mistreatment at Texas’ embattled youth lockups, where at least 11 staffers have been arrested on sexual abuse charges in recent years.

The Justice Department says it’s reviewing an earlier decision to decline prosecution against two former FBI agents embroiled in the Larry Nassar sexual abuse cases after new information has emerged

Twenty years since the Sept. 11 attacks brings a different kind of anniversary for hundreds of Muslim men and their families

The Justice Department is suing to stop American Airlines and JetBlue from coordinating their flights in the Northeast

A prominent cybersecurity lawyer has been charged in the special counsel’s probe of the U.S. government’s investigation into Russian election interference The lawyer is accused of making false statements to the FBI

A Texas plastics company has agreed to pay nearly $3 million in civil penalties for violating the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice is suing Texas over S.B. 8, the state’s controversial law banning abortions before many people know they’re pregnant.

The Justice Department on Thursday sued Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.”

The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.”

After the Justice Department on Monday said it would “protect those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services,” Texas groups for abortion rights and against abortion responded.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall over whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev can be put to death.

The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging bans involving transgender people that target athletes in West Virginia and children in Arkansas

Despite President Joe Biden’s public opposition to capital punishment, his administration supported an appeal first filed by his predecessor in a 48-page brief filed with the Supreme Court.

John Demers will leave his position by the end of next week, a Justice Department official told The Associated Press on Monday. The resignation comes amid questions about what Demers knew about the Justice Department’s efforts to secretly seize the phone data from House Democrats and reporters as part of the aggressive investigations into leaks.

The brother of capital murder suspect Yaser Said was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for helping the “10 Most Wanted” suspect, accused of murdering his two teenage daughters in a 2008 shooting, evade capture for 12 years.

The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of four New York Times reporters as part of a leak investigation

President Joe Biden is taking executive action to ensure minorities, low-income Americans and others have better access to quality legal representation after services dwindled during the Trump administration

The Justice Department has assembled a task force to confront ransomware after what officials say was the costliest year on record for the crippling cyberattacks.