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News Articles: Justice Department

Attorney General Merrick Garland appears before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

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  • Politics

AG Garland defends DOJ's Hunter Biden investigation at House Judiciary hearing

Republicans spent the nearly six-hour-long hearing interrogating Attorney General Merrick Garland over the agency's investigations into Hunter Biden and former President Donald Trump.

September 20, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Hunter Biden, President Biden's son, is alleging the release of his tax records is a violation of IRS rules. Earlier this year, Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor offenses related to his filing of federal income taxes.

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  • Law

Hunter Biden sues IRS over release of his tax records

Hunter Biden claims the IRS unlawfully released his confidential tax return information. Among other things, Biden is seeking $1,000 for each unauthorized disclosure and attorneys fees.

September 18, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate on April 4, in Palm Beach, Fla.

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  • Law

Judge sets March 4, 2024, as Trump trial date in election interference case

The judge overseeing a criminal case against former President Donald Trump for interfering with the 2020 presidential election has set a trial date of March 4, 2024.

August 28, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
The SpaceX headquarters is seen, May 25, 2012, in Hawthorne, Calif. On Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against SpaceX, the rocket company founded and run by Elon Musk, for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and people seeking or already granted asylum.

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  • Law

The Justice Department is suing SpaceX for allegedly not hiring refugees and asylees

The agency says SpaceX often said in its marketing materials for open jobs they couldn't hire U.S. citizens because of export control laws. But asylees and refugees are protected under those laws.

August 26, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the Des Moines International Airport after a visit to the Iowa State Fair on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.

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  • Elections

Trump lawyers ask to push back federal election subversion trial to April 2026

The suggested April 2026 date is a counterproposal to the Justice Department's recommendation last week that the trial should begin Jan. 2, 2024.

August 18, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press

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  • Law

Garland names special counsel in Hunter Biden investigation

David Weiss, a Trump appointee as U.S. attorney who was retained during the Biden administration, has been investigating Hunter Biden since 2019.

August 11, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca, center, speaks to reporters after six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses in federal court in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023.

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  • National

6 white ex-officers in Mississippi plead guilty to assault on 2 Black men

Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department said the Mississippi officers "caused harm to the entire community who feel that they can't trust the police officers who are supposed to serve them."

August 04, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada for the Central District of California, right, speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023, in San Diego.

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  • National Security

2 U.S. Navy sailors charged with providing sensitive military information to China

The two U.S. sailors, both based in California, were charged with similar moves to provide sensitive intelligence to the Chinese.

August 03, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, 2020, in Philadelphia.

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  • Law

The latest Trump indictment lists 6 unnamed co-conspirators. Here's what we know

Despite prosecutors listing six of his alleged co-conspirators, Donald Trump will be standing alone in Washington, D.C.'s federal courthouse in his first court appearance since being indicted Tuesday.

August 03, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A migrant in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, displays the CBP One app used to apply for an appointment to claim asylum in the U.S.

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  • National

Judge blocks Biden administration's new rules for asylum-seekers at the border

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar blocked a similar policy during the Trump administration, and immigrant advocates had urged him to do the same in this case.

July 25, 2023
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By:
  • Joel Rose
FTC Chair Lina Khan prepares to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on July 13.

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  • Business

FTC and Justice Department double down on strategy to go after corporate monopolies

New guidelines from the FTC and Justice Department are part of a broader push to promote competition and limit what the White House sees as excessive consolidation.

July 19, 2023
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By:
  • Dara Kerr and
  • Alina Selyukh
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a Moms for Liberty meeting in Philadelphia on June 30.

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  • Law

DOJ won't shield Trump from claims he defamed writer E. Jean Carroll

The move reverses course on one of the Justice Department's most controversial decisions during the early stretch of the Biden administration.

July 11, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
This March 28, 2017, photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein.

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  • Law

Negligence, staff failures led to Jeffrey Epstein's suicide, a DOJ report says

The disgraced financier who was jailed for sex trafficking charges, killed himself at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019. He died before standing trial.

June 27, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Hunter Biden is seen after a White House ceremony on July 7, 2022.

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  • Law

Hunter Biden agrees to plead guilty in tax case and avoid prosecution on gun charge

The president's son agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax offenses. He's also charged with a felony firearm offense, for which he agreed to enter a pretrial diversion agreement.

June 20, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
An demonstrator holds a portrait of George Floyd in March 2021 outside the Hennepin County Government in Minneapolis, where the trial of former Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin in Floyd's killing was under way.

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  • National

DOJ report finds systemic patterns of abuse by the Minneapolis Police Department

The Justice Department, city and police will begin negotiations to set the terms of a consent decree, which will bring federal oversight to police

June 16, 2023
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By:
  • Martin Kaste
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