Newly unsealed court records show how federal prosecutors built — and were then forced to abandon — a criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams under pressure from President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.
A veteran FBI agent who accused the bureau of political bias during President Donald Trump’s administration was arrested Monday in New York on charges of unlawfully disclosing confidential information, according to court records filed Tuesday.
The Trump administration is considering a plan for the Pentagon to take control of a buffer zone along parts of the southern border and allow active-duty U.S. troops to temporarily hold migrants who enter the country illegally.
Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have fallen to their lowest levels in decades, leaving once-packed migrant shelters nearly empty and prompting more people stranded in Mexico to return home.
ICE is facing a nearly $2 billion budget shortfall this fiscal year, far exceeding the additional $500 million Congress is considering, according to sources familiar with the agency’s communications.
President Donald Trump is planning a rare visit to the Justice Department on Friday to discuss his administration’s efforts to “restore law and order.”
The Justice Department’s public integrity section, which handles corruption cases against government officials, is set to be significantly downsized, with its cases transferred to U.S. attorney’s offices across the country.
A federal judge ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters do not extend to the separate crimes of one participant who plotted to kill law enforcement officers investigating him.
