A Manhattan man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for an execution-style murder of a long-time acquaintance on the Grand Central Parkway

The president-elect’s defense lawyers accused the special counsel of unethical and improper behavior in his prosecutions of their client. They could be in senior Justice Department roles within weeks.

If they are confirmed by the Senate, which looks like a certainty, they will come into Main Justice, the department’s Washington headquarters, with a mandate to clean house. And then what? Washington attorneys who deal with political cases have told me that lately they have been barraged with phone calls from career civil servants,

With the public release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the saga of Donald Trump’s federal prosecution for election interference has come to an

Jack Smith held on to hope that he would be the one to finally hold Donald Trump to account for his assaults on the rule of law and American democracy. Bringing his

Only one of the four criminal cases against Trump ever reached the trial stage, the Manhattan hush-money case. It culminated on Friday, when New York Justice Juan Merchan sentenced Donald Trump to an “unconditional discharge” following the May 2024 jury verdict finding him guilty of 34 felony charges.

Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 to take over two investigations into President-elect Donald Trump, has resigned.

It makes a mockery of the so-called ethics rules that they put in place, but that there's no mechanism to enforce.

Nothing much will change for the president-elect now that he is a convicted felon. The sting will be in the title itself.

Donald Trump's sentencing in his New York criminal case on Friday closes out a series of prosecutions that he largely beat by retaking the U.S. presidency, though he is still fighting to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars for losses in civil lawsuits.

President Joe Biden’s pardon decisions have been the focus of attention during his final days in office, but one unusual form of clemency is reigniting legal debate.

The sentencing in Trump's New York criminal case closes out a series of prosecutions that he largely beat by retaking the U.S. presidency, though he is still fighting to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars for losses in civil lawsuits.