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June 24, 2020 at 4:09 pm

Justice Dept. officials testify about politicization under Barr

WASHINGTON — Two Justice Department officials recounted to Congress in stinging detail on Wednesday how political appointees had intervened in criminal and antitrust cases to...

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June 16, 2020 at 3:04 pm

Trump Administration Asks Judge to Stop Publication of Bolton’s Book

The Trump administration sued on Tuesday to stop the publication of a highly anticipated book by President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton...

June 8, 2020 at 7:52 pm

Contradicting Trump, Barr says bunker visit was for safety, not an ‘inspection’

The president last week denied that he had been taken to the underground bunker as a precaution as protests over the killing of George Floyd...

June 3, 2020 at 3:02 pm

Rod Rosenstein, key figure in Russia inquiry, defends Mueller appointment

WASHINGTON — The former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein defended during congressional testimony on Wednesday his decision to appoint a special counsel for the...

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May 28, 2020 at 3:43 pm

North Koreans accused of laundering $2.5 billion for nuclear program

WASHINGTON — North Korean and Chinese citizens are operating a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme to help fund the North’s nuclear weapons program, the Justice Department...

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May 20, 2020 at 7:09 pm

Michael Cohen, Disgraced Ex-Trump Lawyer, to Be Released From Prison

Michael D. Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, will be released from a federal prison on Thursday on furlough, a Bureau of...

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May 14, 2020 at 4:20 pm

Burr steps back from Senate panel after phone is seized in stock sales inquiry

WASHINGTON — Sen. Richard M. Burr of North Carolina temporarily stepped down Thursday as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, a day after FBI agents...

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May 7, 2020 at 5:18 pm

Justice Department drops case against Michael Flynn

WASHINGTON — After an extraordinary public campaign by President Donald Trump and his allies, the Justice Department dropped its criminal case Thursday against Michael Flynn,...

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FILE — The oath of allegiance during a naturalization ceremony for new citizens in Washington, Sept. 10, 2019. The Justice Department said on Feb. 26, that it had created an official section in its immigration office to strip citizenship rights from naturalized immigrants, a move that gives more heft to the Trump administration’s broad efforts to remove from the country immigrants who have committed crimes. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The New York Times)

February 26, 2020 at 10:20 pm

Justice Dept. establishes office to denaturalize immigrants

The creation of the Denaturalization Section promises to further expand a practice that was once used infrequently, but that the Trump administration has increasingly turned...

February 13, 2020 at 6:07 pm

Barr says attacks from Trump make work ‘impossible’

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr delivered an extraordinary rebuke of President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying that his attacks on the Justice Department had...

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