Chris Strohm

The US Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Maine over a state anti-discrimination law that allows transgender athletes to participate in girls’ and women’s sports.

The US Justice Department will limit the kinds of cryptocurrency crimes it will investigate and prosecute, specifically focusing on those related to terrorism, drug cartels, victimizing investors and other limited categories.

The Justice Department is weighing whether to release companies from obligations to hire outside monitors as part of settlements with prosecutors — a form of oversight that has long frustrated executives.

President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division told senators that Target Corp. may have acted illegally in pledging to increase the representation of Black employees across its workforce.

The US Senate narrowly confirmed Kash Patel to lead the FBI and carry out Donald Trump’s vision for overhauling an agency that the president claims has been weaponized against him and other conservatives.

Manhattan’s chief federal prosecutor and senior Justice Department officials in Washington resigned rather than carry out an order to drop a corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, defying the wishes of President Donald Trump.

Two groups of FBI agents are seeking court orders to prevent President Donald Trump’s Justice Department from keeping and publishing a list of bureau employees who investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, saying they fear it could be used to target them for retaliation.

President Donald Trump’s rapid-fire moves to reshape American law enforcement have come through a flurry of memos and directives demanding that employees across the Justice Department focus on his top priorities like immigration enforcement.

Federal prosecutors have been directed to cease charging people who block access to pregnancy centers and reproductive health care facilities unless there are extraordinary circumstances.

Donald Trump’s choice to head the CIA called for the agency to heighten its focus on threats from China, and his nominee for attorney general stood by a call to investigate “bad” prosecutors as the Senate picked up the pace of cabinet confirmation hearings.