The US Justice Department’s Lyft lawsuit seeks $53M for riders with disabilities turned away by drivers. Lyft says it disagrees with the allegations.
The DOJ moved to dismiss criminal convictions of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and of the Oath Keepers, in what it calls "the interests of justice." Critics are crying foul.
The 82-year-old estranged father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, cut an electronic monitoring device off his ankle, just days after his arrest for keeping child sexual abuse material in storage units in California, authorities said Tuesday.
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"The federal government has failed the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's horrific crimes for decades," Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said.
Republican Rep. James Comer, who will soon relinquish his position as chairman of the powerful House Oversight Committee when Democrats take control of Congress, has a message for the Justice Department and his Democratic colleagues: There’s a lot more work to be done on Jeffrey Epstein.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche on CNN said it’s his job to represent administration members who are brought to Congress as part of Democratic probes.
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Trump lashed out at Democrats on Truth Social days after the party won control of Congress.
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Trump ordered DOJ to examine alleged threats against Republicans while singling out Slotkin.
An FBI agent hit a pedestrian with their agency car in New York early one morning in February, before moving the man to a nearby bench and speeding away, according to a federal indictment handed up this week.
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"There's no doubt that the threats are threats to our democracy," said John Cusick, assistant counsel at the Legal Defense Fund.
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Federal election monitors are a standard procedure, but this year the Trump administration has expanded it to the “largest monitoring effort in history.” States have prepared to make sure they don’t interfere, as the administration has taken several steps this year to assert more oversight of state-run elections.
A federal judge has thrown out a case against two former FBI officials who were charged with lying to Congress as part of a probe that focused on whether FBI investigators sought to minimize allegations of Biden family corruption and evidence related to Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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Judge Zia Faruqui suggested the prosecution of ex-officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides was rushed to come out ahead of the midterm election.
The judge said he was "deeply troubled" by the mistakes and rushed nature of the case over the FBI's Hunter Biden probes — one of several politically charged DOJ actions ahead of the midterms.
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CNN’s Kyung Lah speaks to early voters in Anchorage, Alaska, where a federal judge has thrown out a Justice Department lawsuit that sought to potentially delay the certification of Alaska’s Senate race, the latest in the Trump administration’s attempts to meddle in the 2026 midterms.
On the eve of the Nov. 3 election, the Trump administration is hoping the Supreme Court will reverse lower courts that rejected its request to order California to set aside the ballots of thousands of people it says are "likely" noncitizens.
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Senator Sullivan's pledge contrasts with the Trump administration's effort to challenge Alaska's election certification.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses the DOJ’s attempts at intervening in the 2026 midterm elections. CNN’s Elex Michaelson reports.