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June 29, 2019

Alaska to receive $10M from Justice Department to combat violent crime, AG Barr says

Attorney General William Barr on Friday declared a public-safety emergency in Alaska so the Justice Department could allocate more than $10 million toward fighting violent crime in some of the state’s rural communities.

June 25, 2019

Robert Mueller agrees to testify before House lawmakers July 17 after subpoena, Nadler and Schiff announce

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17 after they subpoenaed the special counsel Tuesday, according to the committees' chairmen, Reps. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

June 25, 2019

Top Republican calls for Mueller testimony to mark end to 'political gamesmanship'

On the heels of the stunning announcement that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller will testify next month, a top congressional Republican urged Democrats to treat the hearing as a moment of “closure” for the long-running Russia controversy.

June 23, 2019

Trump says appointing Sessions was his biggest mistake

President Trump admitted in an interview aired Sunday that he views appointing Jeff Sessions as his attorney general was his “biggest mistake” as president and said if he had a do-over, he would have tapped someone else.

June 19, 2019

Trump tells Fox News DOJ looking into whether his phone calls were monitored

One day after formally launching his 2020 presidential bid, President Trump told Fox News' "Hannity" exclusively on Wednesday that investigators are working to determine whether his personal phone calls were secretly monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies during the 2016 campaign -- a possibility he called "the ultimate."

June 18, 2019

FBI releases files showing bureau monitored activities of ‘Rules for Radicals’ author Saul Alinsky

The FBI on Tuesday released more than 400 pages of its files on left-wing activist Saul Alinsky that showed the bureau, for years, monitored the community organizer and investigated accusations that he was a communist.

June 18, 2019

Manafort transferred to NY federal prison ahead of state trial, after Rikers Island move nixed

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was transferred to a federal prison in New York City late Monday ahead of his pending state court trial -- but only after the Justice Department rejected a local district attorney’s reported bid to move him to the notorious Rikers Island prison complex.

June 14, 2019

DOJ defends Mnuchin’s refusal to hand over Trump’s tax returns

The Justice Department released an opinion Friday defending Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s refusal to comply with a House Democratic subpoena for six years of President Trump’s personal and business tax returns.

June 14, 2019

Tensions high as Memphis community tries to return to normal after police shooting

A sense of calm is restored in the city of Memphis after a tumultuous clash between police and protesters Wednesday after an officer-involved shooting death of a black man. However tensions are running high between the two sides as investigators look into the officer involved shooting. 

June 13, 2019

DOJ lost track of foreign nationals with criminal histories after bringing them to US: audit

The Justice Department has lost track of numerous foreign nationals who were brought into the United States to help with law enforcement cases and may have criminal histories of their own – something that could be putting the public "at risk," the DOJ’s inspector general warned in a newly released audit.