The Latest Breaking News from Justice Department

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation of the prosecutor’s office in Minnesota’s most populous county after its leader directed her staff to consider racial disparities as one factor when negotiating plea deals

The US Justice Department has informed Voice of America its staff can resume programming next week after the broadcaster was shuttered by President Donald Trump in March, according to Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without borders and a VOA employee said Saturday.

A former career Justice Department prosecutor is challenging his firing by the White House, saying in a complaint that his removal for “unprecedented partisan and political reasons” undermines a “bedrock principle” of the justice system

Section is responsible for enforcing laws designed to prevent voter discrimination, raised alarm about voting rights enforcement

Civil rights groups blast new Justice Department memo rescinding press protections

The Justice Department is poised to crack down on leaks of information to the news media, authorizing prosecutors to issue subpoenas to news organizations as part of leak investigations, serve search warrants when appropriate and force journalists to testify about their sources

Prosecutors announced officials plans to seek the death penalty ahead of Luigi Mangione’s hearing

The memo says "Alien Enemies" aren't subject "to a judicial review of the removal in any court of the United States."

The Trump administration has decided that the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees is not immune from being sued, reversing the U.S. government’s longstanding position that the organization was protected from civil liability