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Attorney General Merrick Garland and senior Justice Department officials are urging career employees to remain in their roles as the department transitions to a new administration.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced two high-profile appointments to key federal law enforcement agencies, both of whom share his “America First” ideology. 

By Allan Lengel In what may not come as such a big surprise, President Joe Biden, who prides himself on being a family man, announced on Sunday that he has pardoned son Hunter, who was found guilty in Delaware of illegally buying a gun and pleaded guilty to income tax evasion in California. Considering he’ll…

Several Cabinet nominees of President-elect Donald Trump have been targeted with violent threats, including bomb scares and swatting incidents, prompting swift responses from law enforcement, Trump’s transition team said Wednesday.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Border Patrol agents are barred from cutting razor wire placed by Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, escalating tensions between the state and the federal government over immigration enforcement. 

CBP has made the largest counterfeit musical instrument seizure on record, confiscating more than 3,000 fake Gibson guitars at the LA/Long Beach Seaport, the agency announced Tuesday. 

An animal-rights activist accused of bombing two San Francisco-area buildings over 20 years ago — and once listed among the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists — was arrested in Wales on Monday, the FBI announced Tuesday.

An FBI agent previously acquitted of attempted murder in a train shooting was arrested Monday in Maryland, accused of sexually assaulting two women, according to police and court records.

A federal judge dismissed the election-obstruction charges against President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, ending a landmark investigation that never went to trial but significantly influenced the legal understanding of presidential immunity.

A Republican congressman announced plans this week to introduce legislation to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), a federal agency he claims infringes on Americans’ Second Amendment rights.

President-elect Donald Trump intends to dismiss the entire team that assisted special counsel Jack Smith in pursuing federal prosecutions against him, including career attorneys who typically have protections against political retaliation, according to two individuals familiar with his transition plans.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are under fire for refusing to testify publicly at a Senate committee hearing on global threats to national security, breaking with a tradition of transparency before the panel.