David Nakamura

Harmeet K. Dhillon, a Trump loyalist, would oversee federal efforts on antidiscrimination and voting rights cases.

Memphis officials rebuffed Justice Department attempts to place its police force on federal supervision nearly two years after the fatal beating of a Black man.

Roger Golubski, who was White, had been charged with six counts of deprivation of rights, with prosecutors alleging he abused two Black women multiple times.

Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, is a former elected state attorney general who stood by him through scandal and investigation.

A federal investigation concluded that the Trenton police systemically used excessive force and made unlawful stops and searches of pedestrians and motorists

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to abandon the Biden administration’s use of federal power to help curb excessive force and discrimination by police.

The federal government will send election monitors to 86 jurisdictions in 27 states, the highest number in 20 years amid fears of unlawful partisan influence.

The Justice Department has sent out hundreds of election monitors for decades. But GOP leaders in some states have begun to deny them entry to polling sites.

Federal prosecutors said John C. Pollard of Philadelphia sent threatening text messages to the person’s cellphone.

U.S. officials said Russian social media influencers created and helped amplify fake videos and other false content that alleged abusive conduct by Tim Walz.