Garland Says as Attorney General He Will Combat Domestic Extremism
WASHINGTON — Judge Merrick B. Garland plans to tell senators on Monday that he will restore the Justice Department’s commitment to equal justice under the...
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Richard Thornburgh, Former Governor and Attorney General, Dies at 88
Dick Thornburgh, a two-term Republican governor of Pennsylvania who coped with America’s worst nuclear power meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 and later served...
Barr Leaves a Legacy Defined by Trump
WASHINGTON — Soon after he undercut President Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in early December, Attorney General William P. Barr’s time atop the...
Lockerbie Bombing of 1988: US Unseals Charges Against New Suspect
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr on Monday announced criminal charges against a former Libyan intelligence operative accused of building the explosive device that...
U.S. Unseals Charges Against New Suspect in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr on Monday announced criminal charges against a former Libyan intelligence operative accused of building the explosive device that...
Barr Says C.I.A. ‘Stayed in Its Lane’ in Examining Russian Election Interference
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s examination of the investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election has cleared the C.I.A. of suspicions that it targeted...
Drug Makers Are Pulling Back From a Program to Help the Needy
WASHINGTON — Some of the nation’s top pharmaceutical companies have stopped giving federally mandated drug discounts to hospitals and clinics that care for the poorest...
Who Is Jeffrey Rosen, Who Will Lead the Justice Dept. for Trump’s Endgame?
WASHINGTON — When the deputy attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, testified at his confirmation hearing in April 2019, he seemed to pledge to keep politics...
Republicans Find Themselves Speechless Following a Supreme Court Defeat
A day after President Trump’s stinging defeat in the Supreme Court, Republicans around the country seemed to be having trouble finding the right words. The...
Investigation of His Son Is Likely to Hang Over Biden as He Takes Office
WASHINGTON — The newly disclosed federal tax investigation into his son will test President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s stated commitment to independent law enforcement while...