Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has recommended expanding the Trump administration’s travel ban list to between 30 and 32 countries — up from the current 19 — according to a source familiar with the proposal.
The Trump administration is deploying hundreds of federal agents to Minnesota for a major immigration enforcement operation targeting undocumented Somali immigrants in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
FBI Director Kash Patel is increasingly coming under fire from a group of active and retired bureau personnel, just days after the White House denied reports that President Trump planned to fire him.
The U.S. Justice Department is considering whether to seek new indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James after a federal judge threw out both cases last week, according to two people familiar with the discussion.
By Allan Lengel Over the decades of covering federal law enforcement for various publications, including the Detroit News and The Washington Post, there has never been a more important time to report on the goings-on in the federal government. Scores of federal prosecutors and FBI agents have been fired this year simply for doing their…
By Allan Lengel The old adage was once, “crime doesn’t pay.” President Donald Trump’s pardon power is altering that. President Trump has commuted the seven-year sentence of fraudster David Gentile, 59, a private equity fund executive who served less than two weeks of his sentence in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that…
John Engstrom, a Metro Detroit resident and Wayne State University Law School graduate, spent years in Ukraine working for the Justice Department, trying to address corruption and help improve the justice system there. He began his career with the government in 1989 when he became an assistant U.S. Attorney in Detroit. He later went overseas…
Top Republicans and Democrats in Congress said Sunday that a reported U.S. military strike on survivors of a boat attack in the Caribbean may constitute a war crime, deepening scrutiny of President Trump’s unauthorized offensive against suspected drug-smuggling vessels.
