Justice Department sues Kansas City, Kansas, schools over transgender guidance it says hides students’ transitions from parents, calling it the first lawsuit of its kind.
Trump administration shuts 270 trucking schools it says helped undocumented immigrants get commercial licenses, 110 of them tied to over 5,000 drivers who failed English tests.
Justice Department settles its 2020 lawsuit against Walmart for $50 million over pharmacies that filled pill-mill opioid prescriptions their own pharmacists had flagged.
Wyoming’s Republican governor asks the state attorney general to investigate “aggressive” Justice Department election monitors who tried to inspect tabulators and interview voters during the primary.
Justice Department appeals a judge’s 14-day block on Postal Service rules letting it withhold mail ballots, one day after she found compliance “practically impossible” by November.
FBI drops its automatic hiring ban on applicants who paid for sex, easing standards to rebuild a workforce depleted by firings, resignations and retirements.
Justice Department says it will appeal the dismissal of its antisemitism suit against Harvard 2 weeks after a judge found the claims rested on one school year plus 3 later incidents.
US Attorney Pirro’s special grand jury questions DC teachers about truancy and graduation rates in a rare federal probe of how the city supervises its youth, the Post reports.
Judge cuts off DOJ’s claim that the Kennedy Center is “dilapidated” as a “non sequitur” while weighing whether Trump’s board can put his name on the facade and grounds.
ATF investigates a “major” cyber incident after the ransomware group Qilin said it hacked the agency, without disclosing whether any data was stolen.
Trump-appointed judge refuses to erase Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction, ruling prosecutors never explained why dismissal serves justice.
FBI seizes 3 internet domains Chinese government-backed hackers used to target NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate and 3 federal departments.
Deloitte pays $21.5 million to settle DOJ claims its DEI programs defrauded the government, with an anti-affirmative action group taking $4.3 million as whistleblower.
Legal watchdog files bar complaints against US Attorney Pirro and 2 deputies for seeking to indict 6 Democratic lawmakers a grand jury refused to charge.
Trump announces Stop the Steal advocate Ed Martin is leaving DOJ to fight legal battles in the midterm and 2028 elections.
TikTok agrees to pay DOJ $400 million to settle 2024 charges it collected children’s data without parental consent and kept accounts it knew belonged to kids.
Trump tells Michael Cohen he was weaponized and forced to testify in the hush money trial, as Cohen’s pardon application awaits White House action.
FBI seizes former Rep. Swalwell’s devices in a sexual misconduct investigation as the White House declassifies files on his contact with a suspected Chinese spy.
DOJ whistleblowers tell Congress the university antisemitism probes worked backward from predetermined findings, with attorneys pressured after finding no violations at Brown.
Ninth Circuit rules Nevada US Attorney Chattah was unlawfully appointed, ending the maneuver that kept her in office a year past her interim term.
DOJ appeals the dismissal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s smuggling charges after a judge ruled the prosecution punished him for fighting deportation.
Former Fauci adviser Dr. David Morens pleads guilty to conspiring to conceal federal records about COVID origins research using his private email.
Justice Department creates a process for people with felony convictions to apply for restored gun rights, reviving a program Congress defunded in the 1990s.
Judge permanently blocks the FBI headquarters move within Washington, ruling the administration illegally diverted over $1 billion Congress appropriated for the Greenbelt, Maryland site.
Federal prosecutors spent a year investigating the daughter of the judge who oversaw Trump’s hush-money conviction, narrowing their sweeping subpoena to a $468 payment.
Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks at Trump’s New York campaign rally one week after his confirmation, breaking the department’s political neutrality norm.
Judge Sullivan warns he will hold DOJ lawyers in contempt over Epstein files, citing the Stevens case where he did exactly that.
US attorney confirms FBI tests found no meth in the van of ICE shooting victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo but withholds the results.
Judge dismisses the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard, calling the cited incidents too isolated to show institutional civil rights violations.
Pirro convenes a rare special grand jury that can issue reports on Trump critics without indictments after Trump’s rebuke over the Reflecting Pool dismissal.
DOJ tells the DC Council its request that 10 governors withdraw Guard troops is impotent theatrics as the deployment enters a second year.
DOJ arrests far-right extremism expert Heidi Beirich on financial charges in its case against the Southern Poverty Law Center’s KKK informant program.
DOJ declares Trump’s talks with private advisers outside government covered by executive privilege, a shield against subpoenas if Democrats win Congress.
Judge orders DOJ to justify holding an Afghan permanent resident whose lawyers cannot see the classified evidence in the first secret deportation court case.
Senate confirms Trump’s former defense lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general 50-49, after he killed the $1.8 billion weaponization fund to win holdout Republicans.
Fired federal prosecutor sues DOJ, alleging Bondi dismissed him within 3 hours of a MAGA influencer surfacing his decade-old anti-Trump blog.
The union for career IRS auditors sues to block the audit immunity acting AG Blanche granted Trump’s family, calling the settlement breathtakingly corrupt.
DOJ finds Duke Law intentionally used race in admissions through essay tags correlated with race, threatening suit if the university refuses a settlement.
DOJ and a Louisiana school board end 61 years of desegregation oversight dating to a 1964 suit whose original parent plaintiffs have died.
New Mexico sues DOJ and acting AG Blanche for withholding unredacted Epstein files that reference Zorro Ranch more than 13,000 times.
Judge “reluctantly” grants DOJ’s request to dismiss the final Jan. 6 prosecution against eight Oath Keepers, writing that the epilogue “excuses criminal acts.”
DOJ pays a 7-figure settlement to a pardoned anti-abortion activist whose clinic-blockade conviction was upheld on appeal, days after killing its weaponization fund.
Prosecutors drop the last 3 Reflecting Pool vandalism cases, blaming the Trump administration’s own rushed contractor as Trump insists “VANDALS” caused the damage.
Senate GOP holdouts Cornyn and Tillis agree to advance Blanche’s attorney general nomination after DOJ puts the weaponization fund’s death in writing.
Trump says Pirro “choked” in dropping Reflecting Pool charges against an Olympian, rejecting his own prosecutor’s 20-page memo finding no evidence of vandalism.
Acting AG Blanche formally kills the $1.8 billion payout fund for Trump’s prosecuted allies to win two GOP holdouts, a day after Trump vowed to revive it.
DOJ demands a New York Times freelancer’s testimony and 2 years of notes to unmask sources on a botched SEAL mission that killed unarmed North Koreans.
Trump vows to revive the $1.8 billion weaponization fund he declared dead 2 days ago, even at the cost of Blanche’s confirmation.
Trump publicly rebukes US Attorney Pirro for dropping Reflecting Pool charges after her office admitted a rushed installation, not vandals, caused the damage.
Trump appeals a ruling that his $10 billion IRS lawsuit was a bad-faith vehicle for taxpayer funds and audit immunity, hours after calling the fund dead.
