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Several witnesses have been subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury considering charges against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is already facing state murder charges in the death of George Floyd, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Amy Davidson Sorkin on the confirmation hearings of Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's nominee for Attorney General, during which Republicans like Ted Cruz attempted to criticize him.

The U.S. Justice Department has removed its support for a federal lawsuit in Connecticut that seeks to reverse a state policy allowing the participation of transgender athletes in girl's high school sports.

Judge Merrick Garland was asked to define systemic racism, implicit bias and racism during the first day of his Senate confirmation hearing on Monday, and his answers laid out a stark contrast with the last Senate-confirmed attorney general from the Trump administration.

Just six weeks after a deadly insurrection against the U.S. government, incited by a president who sent a mob after his own vice president, Republicans are...

Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden's attorney general nominee, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, vowing to preserve the integrity of the Justice Department and to fully prosecute the "heinous" crimes committed during the attack on the US Capitol last month.

John Daukas, who served as acting U.S. attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, explained on Monday why he believes New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should be worried about a federal probe into the his alleged undercounting of nursing home deaths amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nearly five years after Senate Republicans refused to grant Merrick Garland a hearing to be confi...

The judge is also expected to affirm his commitment to equal justice under the law and to vow to root out widespread discrimination.

Without Manchin's vote, Tanden likely would need at least one Senate Republican to back her in order to win approval.

Though the riot was the culmination of Trump's months of attempts to overturn the election, it's hardly the only incident that may have left the ex-president legally exposed.

The New York governor's dispute with a Queens Democrat isn't his worst move on the issue.

Lost in the news on the day of Trump's Insurrection was a devastating new watchdog report to Congress on the politicizing and distorting of intelligence during Donald Trump's time in office.The analytic ombudsman, career intelligence community veteran Barry A. Zulauf, determined that under Trump, na...

Today in History Today is Sunday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2021. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine's Day. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman identified as a former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, killing 17 people in the nation's deadliest school shooting since the attack in Newtown,…

Why didn't they want to call witnesses? What are they hiding? What more have they fabricated?

Appearing on MSNBC early Saturday morning with host Stephanie Ruhle, former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said it is entirely possible that Donald Trump could be arrested and then charged by a grand jury for the death of Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick who died at the hands of the Trump...

Today in History Today is Saturday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2021. There are 321 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 13, 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the U.S. Supreme Court, was found dead at a private residence in the Big Bend area of West Texas; he was 79. During a Republican presidential debate that evening in South…

For the second time in as many years, the House impeached President Donald Trump, this time over the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol. Here's what to know about when Trump's trial will start, how to watch it live and more.

Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was prepared to plead guilty to third-degree murder in George Floyd's death before then-Attorney General William Barr personally blocked the plea deal.

Prosecutors in Donald Trump's impeachment trial unveiled the security video for Senate jurors and the nation showing the mob of rioters breaking into the Capitol.