The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced it's pausing criminal prosecutions of diesel "delete" procedures under the Clean Air Act. The

The Justice Department is once again at the center of the news, with investigations of federal lawmakers, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and resignations by career prosecutors in Minnesota.

The Justice Department is quietly preparing to loosen several federal gun rules, a move aimed at shoring up support from gun-rights activists while risking new legal and political fights, according to people familiar with the plans who spoke to the Washington Post.

A growing list of Republicans, including two senators on the influential Senate Banking Committee, have spoken out against the Justice Department subpoenas of the Federal Reserve and warned that the probe could undermine the central bank's independence.

Under the Trump administration, federal prosecutors have been sent to investigate federal lawmakers, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the widow of Renee Macklin Good.The Department of Justice is once again at the center of the news.

Washington — A bipartisan group of former federal ethics officials is asking for an internal Justice Department investigation into the legal opinion justifying U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-running boats in the waters off South America.

At her confirmation hearing in January, Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to reassure senators about the job she would do as the nation’s top federal law-enforcement officer. Her “overriding objective,” Bondi said, would be to “return the Department ...