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A suspected Ukrainian hacker has been arrested and charged in the United States in connection with a string of costly ransomware attacks, including one that snarled businesses around the globe on the Fourth of July weekend

The DOJ says they’re suing Texas and the Texas Secretary of State over SB1, alleging it violates the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts.

Lower Manhattan’s MCC has housed a slew of famously well-known criminals — El Chapo, John Gotti, Bernie Madoff, and some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists.

The last few inmates at the MCC were transferred to a facility in Brooklyn, after the deteriorated Manhattan locked was closed for repairs.

On Friday, Federal law enforcement agencies in North Texas will announce the results of a large-scale fraud investigation.

The Justice Department is launching a widespread probe into the police force in Phoenix to examine whether officers have been using excessive force and abusing people experiencing homelessness

A Justice Department attorney says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will issue an order this week about how migrant children are treated under a public health order that has prevented people from seeking asylum at the nation’s borders

The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging bans involving transgender people that target athletes in West Virginia and children in Arkansas

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog has launched an investigation after revelations that former President Donald Trump’s administration secretly seized phone data from at least two House Democrats

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in the U.S. and admitted that she helped her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.

The Dept. of Justice released the videos after media organizations, including NBC News, filed a motion arguing the public had a “powerful interest” in seeing the footage.

A new report states that top aides to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo repeatedly overruled and tried to obscure numbers from state health officials regarding the COVID-19 death toll in nursing homes

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office said it won’t reveal what it told the U.S. Justice Department about COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes, partly because doing so would be an “invasion of personal privacy.” The Justice Department last year asked the governors of several states, including New York, to turn over certain, basic statistics related to deaths and infections inside nursing...

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into whether the Minneapolis Police Department engages in a “pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.”

What was different about the Chauvin trial wasn’t the verdict, though it felt rare after other cops had been let off the hook for using force on people of color. It was the millions of people who used the case as a rallying cry to call for real change. But it’s just one case. Aya Gruber, professor of law at...

The governor tried to talk coronavirus and the state budget on Wednesday, in an effort to avoid answering questions regarding the sexual misconduct and nursing home death scandals surrounding him. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

A 48-year-old Amtrak worker has been arrested for allegedly stealing chainsaws and chainsaw parts valued at more than $50,000 from his employer and reselling them, mainly via an online auction service, federal prosecutors in New Jersey say. Jose Rodriguez, of Brick, faces one count of theft from an agency receiving federal funds and one count of theft of government property…

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, saying video of the shooting was of too poor a quality for prosecutors to conclusively establish what had happened, NBC News reports.

A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after president-elect Joe Biden takes office

President Donald Trump on Monday tweeted that Attorney General William Barr will be “leaving just before Christmas.”