The Latest Breaking News from Justice Department

A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order, saying the evidence of legal violations is insufficient at this point.

WASHINGTON — Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who faced the threat of being held in contempt of Congress, appeared Wednesday for closed-door questioning before a House panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke is scheduled to be released from prison Thursday after serving less than half of his state prison term.

The NAACP is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to bring federal civil rights charges against the white Chicago police officer who fatally shot Black teenager Laquan McDonald

The DOJ must use its authority to challenge discriminatory reforms immediately, before the election. The new obstacles must be exposed as the insult that they are, and used to motivate even more people to vote.

The Justice Department on Friday said an Iranian, carrying the British nationality, has pleaded guilty for exporting advanced weapons from the United States to Iran. Meanwhile, an indictment was unsealed charging four individuals with the same offense, as well as related offenses. In a statement, the Department said that according…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge has awarded more than $344,000 in legal fees to a former prisoner who sued the Justice Department seeking answers about a 1988 explosion that killed six Kansas City firefighters, for which he spent nearly 20 years in prison.

The Justice Department says a Texas man has been charged with a federal gun crime after authorities say he sold a gun to a man who held four hostages inside a Texas synagogue earlier this month

Rev. Jesse Jackson is lobbying the Justice Department to file civil rights charges against Van Dyke for the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald.