Mark Berman

Luigi Mangione faces a murder charge in New York. He was arraigned in a courthouse near Altoona, Pennsylvania, and denied bail, a court official said.

Joe Biden ran for president opposing the death penalty. He faces calls to commute federal death sentences before President-elect Donald Trump assumes office.

The unusual time limit for the FBI director dates back to the post-Watergate era. But almost no one has served the full 10 years.

Trump picked Christopher Wray to lead the FBI in 2017, then soured on him before leaving office. Trump would have to fire Wray — or Wray would have to resign — for Patel to take over the bureau.

If confirmed as deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche should recuse from Justice Dept. matters related to cases where he represented Donald Trump, experts say.

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

More than 2,100 people sit on American death rows. Will most of them die there waiting to be executed?

The federal indictment against Eric Adams was unsealed Thursday and accuses him of wrongdoing both before and after he became New York City’s mayor.

The decision to charge the 14-year-old suspect as an adult means he could face much harsher sentencing if convicted.

A nearly three-year federal civil rights investigation said it found widespread issues within the Phoenix police force.