During President Trump’s first term, demanding personal loyalty didn’t always work; stocking top jobs with loyalists is the ...

The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department ...

The move was part of a domino effect initiated by President Trump’s enactment of a 90-day federal hiring freeze.

The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, according to a ...

Senior officials under President Trump have talked with prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of abandoning the ...

By Glenn Thrush Devlin Barrett and Adam Goldman Reporting from Washington Acting Attorney General James McHenry on Monday fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the two criminal ...

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era ...

At the department’s headquarters in downtown Washington, lawyers described the uncertainty that has rippled across the agency ...

The suit challenges an executive action that required trans women to be housed in prisons for men, and ends ...

The frenetic speed and scale of leadership changes that the Trump administration has made at the Justice Department in its ...