Politics
Michael Gates, Huntington Beach’s longtime city attorney and an aggressive foe of California’s liberal politics, joins the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
World & Nation
The Trump administration has fired 20 immigration judges without explanation, a union official says, amid the shrinking of the federal government.
The Justice Department under Trump disbanded a program aimed at seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
Pam Bondi is sworn in as attorney general, taking charge of a Justice Department bracing for upheaval as Trump aims to exert his will over the agency.
Trump’s Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen officials involved in prosecutions of the president.
Federal prosecutors are told in no uncertain terms that they will be on the front lines of an administration-wide effort to crack down on illegal immigration and border crime.
The formal move to end the prosecution came days into an epic showdown between Justice Department leadership in Washington and its office in New York.
California
Fresno Police and the California Department of Justice are investigating a shooting they said occurred when a fight broke out between a parole officer and a parolee Tuesday.
The criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams hangs by a thread after the Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors to drop charges.
The Justice Department has agreed to refrain from publicly identifying any FBI agents whose conduct is under review as President Trump’s administration examines the investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.