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News Articles: U.S. Justice Department

Georgia General Election 2020 ballots are loaded by the FBI onto trucks at the Fulton County Election HUB, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Union City, Ga., near Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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  • News

Judge orders Fulton County and U.S. government to mediation over seized 2020 election records

Fulton County and the Trump administration are being ordered into mediation over the U.S. Justice Department's seizure of hundreds of boxes of ballots from the 20-20 election.

February 26, 2026
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
People attend a candlelight vigil this week organized by health care workers at the site where Alex Pretti was killed in Minneapolis.

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  • National

Alex Pretti shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis prompts DOJ civil rights probe

Alex Pretti's shooting death by federal agents in Minneapolis has prompted a DOJ civil rights probe. Renee Macklin Good's death by federal agents has not.

January 30, 2026
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By:
  • Brian Bakst
The Department of Justice is asking a federal judge to force Google to sell its popular Chrome browser.

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  • Technology

The Justice Department is trying to make Google sell off its Chrome browser

If a judge orders Google to sell Chrome, it could dramatically upend the multibillion-dollar online search business.

November 21, 2024
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Attorney General Merrick Garland

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  • Law

White House cites executive privilege over tapes of special counsel's Biden interview

House Republicans want to hold the attorney general in contempt over the department's refusal to hand over an audio recording of a special counsel's interview with the president.

May 16, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson and
  • Ryan Lucas
The U.S. Justice Department says Boeing broke a deferred prosecution deal with the government following a pair of fatal 737 Max crashes more than five years ago.

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  • Business

DOJ says Boeing broke deal that avoided prosecution after 2 fatal 737 Max crashes

Boeing has violated the terms of a deal to avoid prosecution after the fatal crashes of two 737 Max planes more than five years ago, the Department of Justice told a federal judge on Tuesday.

May 16, 2024
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Catherine Berthet of France, whose daughter Camille was killed in the 2019 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, speaks Wednesday alongside other family members of victims after meeting with Justice Department officials.

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  • National

After two Boeing 737 Max crashes, families are still seeking answers from DOJ

More than five years after two 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people, families of the victims are still pushing the Justice Department to hold Boeing accountable. They're frustrated by the response.

April 25, 2024
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By:
  • Joel Rose
The U.S. Department of Justice seal is seen on a lectern.

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  • Law

U.S. charges 3 in alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill Iranian defector in Maryland

The indictment unsealed in federal court is at least the third Iran-based murder-for-hire plot prosecuted by the Justice Department since 2022.

January 31, 2024
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
A memorial is seen surrounding the Robb Elementary School sign following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 26, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas.

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  • National

Justice Department report finds 'cascading failures' in response to Uvalde attack

The Justice Department's critical incident review comes more than a year and a half after the gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

January 18, 2024
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
Fulton County Jail is seen on April 2, 2013, in Atlanta. The Justice Department announced that it has opened a civil investigation into the conditions at the facility.

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  • Law

Feds to investigate Georgia's Fulton County Jail for filthy, dangerous conditions

The investigation into the Atlanta-based jail comes almost a year after the death of Lashawn Thompson who died in a bedbug-infested cell in Fulton County Jail's psychiatric wing.

July 13, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 4, 2023.

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  • National

The Justice Department adds to suits against Norfolk Southern over the Ohio derailment

The federal government is accusing Norfolk Southern of "unlawfully polluting" the country's waterways and violating the Clean Water Act in the accident near East Palestine.

March 31, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Louisville Metro Police Department Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel, along with other city and federal officials, discuss the civil rights investigation at a press conference on Wednesday. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg (L) and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland (R) are standing to her left.

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  • National

The DOJ found a pattern of misconduct in the Louisville police department. Now what?

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg spoke with Morning Edition about steps the city is taking to reform its police department — which he says is also some 300 officers short.

March 09, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, pictured in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2018.

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  • Law

Trump and the Justice Department have submitted picks for a special master. Now what?

The sides disagree on whether there should be a special master at all, and how the document review actually should work. Former U.S. attorney Chuck Rosenberg discusses their possible considerations.

September 12, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Police vehicles are parked outside the headquarters of the Yonkers Police Department in Yonkers, N.Y. Since 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating the Yonkers Police Department and recommending areas for reform.

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  • Investigations

Alleged police misconduct cost Yonkers, N.Y., millions. The complaints kept coming

An NPR investigation examined records of payouts by the city and found troubling patterns: Plaintiffs alleged that police often used excessive force. And several officers were repeatedly named.

July 31, 2022
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By:
  • Tracy Brannstrom
A photo provided by the Alexandria, Va., Sheriff's Office in January 2022 shows Allison Fluke-Ekren. Fluke-Ekren, 42, who once lived in Kansas, has been arrested after federal prosecutors charged her with joining the Islamic State group and leading an all-female battalion of AK-47 wielding militants.

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  • National Security

A U.S. woman pleads guilty to leading an all-female ISIS battalion

Allison Fluke-Ekren admitted to operating an all-female ISIS military group and training women and girls on how to use explosive devices.

June 08, 2022
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By:
  • Shauneen Miranda
The U.S. Justice Department filed a brief in federal appeals court Tuesday to overturn a federal judge's decision that declared the government mask mandate on planes, trains and buses unlawful. Here, a sign stating that masks are required at San Francisco International Airport stands in a terminal after the federal mask mandate was overturned.

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  • National

DOJ asks federal appeals court to reverse order lifting travel mask mandate

The Justice Department argues that the order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in early 2021 "falls easily within the CDC's statutory authority."

June 01, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
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