D.C. police prepared to arrest Republican Rep. Cory Mills in February 2025 assault case before lieutenant overruled them and Trump-appointed prosecutor declined warrant.
Justice Department removes career prosecutor leading Brennan probe after she resisted pressure to quickly charge former CIA director and Trump critic.
Hennepin County charges ICE agent Gregory Morgan with assault for pointing gun at drivers from unmarked vehicle during rush-hour traffic.
Justice Department adds terrorism charge against Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. five years after DNC and RNC plantings.
California Supreme Court disbars former Trump attorney Eastman over 2020 election scheme, five years after Jan. 6.
U.S. military kills four in its 51st boat strike since September, bringing the death toll to at least 174 with no public evidence of narcotics recovered.
Trump Justice Department fires multiple prosecutors who won FACE Act convictions against anti-abortion activists, threatens them with criminal charges in 882-page weaponization report.
Justice Department asks court to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of 12 Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders who organized the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Man shot seven times by ICE agents during a traffic stop appears in court in a wheelchair and is charged with assaulting a federal officer.
Minnesota prosecutors investigate ICE agents for potential kidnapping and false imprisonment after a U.S. citizen was detained in his underwear during Operation Metro Surge.
Texas Gov. Abbott threatens to cut $110 million in public safety grants to Houston after City Council votes to limit police cooperation with ICE.
FBI arrests California man shot seven times by ICE immediately upon hospital discharge while he was still unable to sit up, his attorney says.
U.S. military kills two more people in its 50th boat attack targeting alleged drug traffickers in the eastern Pacific, raising the known death toll to 170.
Rep. Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Rep. Gonzales (R-Texas) announce departures from Congress ahead of bipartisan expulsion votes planned for this week over separate sexual misconduct allegations.
U.S. military has killed at least 168 people in 50 boat attacks targeting alleged drug traffickers since September, with no public evidence of narcotics recovered.
Rep. Swalwell drops out of California governor’s race two days after sexual assault allegations as criminal investigations open in two states.
Trump administration fires two immigration judges who blocked deportations of pro-Palestinian students Rumeysa Ozturk and Mohsen Mahdawi.
Manhattan DA opens investigation into Rep. Swalwell’s alleged sexual assault of a former staffer at a New York City hotel in 2024.
Trump repeatedly promises mass pardons to White House aides and officials, telling staff he will pardon “everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval.”
Four women accuse California gubernatorial frontrunner Rep. Eric Swalwell of sexual misconduct, including a former staffer who says he raped her while she was intoxicated.
Trump DOJ settles predatory lending case against Texas developer without compensating victims, redirecting $20 million to immigration enforcement instead.
FBI extracts deleted Signal messages from iPhone notification database in first prosecution under Trump’s domestic terrorism designation of “Antifa.”
ICE agents shoot and critically wound a man on his way to work in California after claiming he is an 18th Street Gang member wanted in El Salvador, a charge his family and attorney deny.
Florida’s wildlife police are searching thousands of license plate cameras nationwide for ICE despite Flock’s public claims it doesn’t share data with immigration agents.
Minneapolis releases video of January ICE shooting that contradicts federal agents’ sworn account of the incident
Rep. Tony Gonzales sought nude photos from a second campaign staffer in 2020, expanding the scandal beyond his admitted 2024 affair.
Gunman fires more than 15 shots at Indianapolis councilor’s home, leaves “no data centers” note after his vote to approve a half-billion dollar project.
Family says 3-year-old immigrant girl suffered sexual abuse in government foster care during five months of detention her father spent trying to get her released.
Trump requests $152 million to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum security prison, converting one of America’s most visited national parks.
Georgia lawmakers pass bill letting property owners sue local governments for not enforcing homeless encampment bans and immigration cooperation laws.
WIRED investigation identifies dozens of masked Border Patrol paramilitary agents responsible for 144 uses of force against civilians in Chicago, the largest such deployment in U.S. history.
Federal inspection finds 49 deficiencies at Camp East Montana, the nation’s largest detention facility, where three migrants have died since mid-December.
Coroner rules Rohingya refugee’s death a homicide after Border Patrol dropped him at a closed coffee shop in freezing Buffalo and he died of hypothermia five days later.
Federal judge finds Border Patrol defied her orders by using identical boilerplate forms to justify detaining 12 day laborers at a Sacramento Home Depot.
Trump’s Justice Department quietly dropped 23,000 criminal investigations in six months, including terrorism and fraud cases, to shift resources to immigration prosecutions, ProPublica finds.
Three fired FBI agents sue Director Patel and AG Bondi in class-action lawsuit alleging they were terminated for investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Trump signs executive order directing DHS and Social Security to compile national voter lists by citizenship status, with DOJ ordered to prosecute noncompliant election officials.
FBI declares March 12 truck attack on Detroit-area synagogue a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism, says attacker planned mass shooting with AR-style rifle.
Police confirm 75 arrests at Los Angeles “No Kings” protest after demonstrators attempted to breach fencing around a federal detention center.
House Ethics panel finds Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick guilty on 25 of 27 charges for stealing and laundering $5 million in FEMA funds through her campaign account.
Judge weighs allowing Venezuela to pay Maduro’s legal fees after prosecutors argue U.S. sanctions block the funding and suggest a public defender.
California sheriff seizes a second batch of ballot materials from 2025 election as state attorney general sues to halt his investigation.
Justice Department investigates California and Maine for housing transgender women with female inmates, threatening federal funding.
ICE agents ran Minnesota lawmakers’ license plates, followed them home and photographed their houses during Operation Metro Surge, records show.
Newly released deposition videos show Epstein’s longtime lawyer and accountant told Congress they were never interviewed by federal investigators despite managing his finances and legal affairs for decades.
Wisconsin jury convicts Harry Wait on felony identity theft and two misdemeanor election fraud counts for requesting absentee ballots in the names of the Assembly Speaker and Racine’s mayor.
Minnesota sues the federal government for evidence in three ICE shootings during Operation Metro Surge, calling the categorical withholding of evidence unprecedented in American history.
Federal prosecutors drop charges against Minnesota woman they accused of joining church protest after she proves she was never there, arrested through cellphone tower dragnet.
Pentagon plans to keep nearly 3,000 National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. through the end of Trump’s second term in January 2029.
Justice Department moves to permanently dismiss all federal charges against two former Louisville officers in the Breonna Taylor case, six years after the fatal raid.