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Texans elected a Democrat to serve as the state’s top lawyer for the first time in decades on Tuesday, flipping an attorney general’s office that...
An Oklahoma man is facing federal charges amid allegations that he sent more than 700 letters containing a white powdery substance to public...
The full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted late Monday to rehear the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court order that blocked it from...
A federal judge on Monday dismissed charges against two former FBI officials who were accused of lying to Congress about their involvement in the...
Voters in half of the country will decide who sits on the bench of their state's highest court next Tuesday. State Supreme Court races are on ballot...
Lawyers for James Comey tried to persuade a federal judge on Friday that the Trump administration's third attempt to prosecute the former FBI Director...
Federal prosecutors asked a judge Tuesday to reject a request from more than a dozen news organizations to immediately unseal the search warrant for...
A federal magistrate judge criticized the Justice Department (DOJ) during a lengthy hearing on Tuesday for attempting to tack on new charges overnight...
Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged again by the Justice Department for allegedly disclosing sensitive national defense information in...
An Illinois man is facing federal charges related to mailing letters containing a white substance to four members of Congress this month in an act...
Advocacy groups are suing the Trump administration over three policies they say have left refugees in “legal limbo” by blocking them from...
The midterms are not just about Congress. While high-profile contests that will determine the balance of power in Washington have dominated news...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly broke with her Supreme Court colleagues in a Thursday ruling allowing New Hampshire to fully block voters from...
Two longtime associates of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are being sued over allegations that they helped facilitate and conceal the...
Justice Elena Kagan offered a pointed critique on Tuesday of recent Supreme Court decisions that opened the door for more political spending and...
A federal judge on Monday pressed the Trump administration about President Trump’s plan to shut down and renovate East Potomac Park next month...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear appeals from three men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks who are currently awaiting trial...
A D.C.-based ethics watchdog group that accused Katie Zacharia of misrepresenting herself as a lawyer is urging the State Bar of California to press...
The White House is asserting executive privilege to block some records of President Trump’s communications from being shared in an ongoing lawsuit...
A federal judge on Wednesday extended a temporary block on the Trump administration’s controversial ad campaign featuring President Trump until...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will examine the reach of a decades-old privacy law designed to protect video rental records in a case that could shape...
A federal judge on Tuesday issued a longer block on President Trump’s ban of three major news organizations from the White House, finding that the...
The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to take up a case involving a Nigerian man who was denied asylum in the U.S. after an immigration judge decided...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from a lawyer who was sanctioned while representing former GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari...
A federal judge scolded Trump administration lawyers on Monday for failing to provide sufficient notice before cutting down hundreds of trees in East...
A federal judge in D.C. on Tuesday declined to immediately rule on whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should be stopped from...
An appeals court panel on Sunday paused a lower judge’s ruling that ordered the Trump administration to immediately reinstate Roger Rogoff as the...
The Supreme Court will not hear a dispute over whether a Michigan public school district can bar students from wearing clothing emblazoned with...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal from Keith Raniere challenging his conviction on racketeering and sex-trafficking charges in...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the Charleston church massacre shooter’s attempt to disqualify his trial judge from further proceedings...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge from Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court justice, to an appeals court ruling that...
Tennessee's botched execution of Christa Pike is renewing scrutiny over how states carry out the death penalty and raising questions about what legal...
A dispute over whether a local zoning ordinance in Kentucky that prohibited a Catholic church from building a religious shrine next to its property is...
The federal case against a former Olympian accused by the Trump administration of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is officially dead...
Lawyers for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike said she was still alive Wednesday night after being administered two syringes of lethal injection...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Tennessee can put Christa Pike to death, lifting an eleventh-hour appeals court ruling that had paused the...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to stop the execution of a Tennessee inmate who was convicted in the 1995 murder of a teenage classmate,...
When President Trump announced he was kicking three news organizations out of the White House, he made clear it was because of his displeasure with...
Years of flat funding are stretching the District of Columbia Courts thin, placing a system relied on by thousands each day under what officials...
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges stemming from allegations that he lied to...
The Kennedy Center’s main building will be closed for at least a week for emergency repairs, its executive director said in court filings on...
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer facing charges in the alleged shooting of a Venezuelan migrant during the Trump...
The Kennedy Center board voted Tuesday to immediately close the venue’s main building for renovations, according to a source familiar, as the board...
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Kennedy Center’s latest attempt to inscribe President Trump's name back on building — and to rename the...
The Kennedy Center board is set to vote Tuesday on whether to immediately close the institution’s main building for renovations, as a court battle...
President Trump's pledge to give $5,000 to every U.S. adult if Republicans keep control of both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections has...
Missouri’s top judges pressed the state Thursday over how it will revert to an old congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked officials...
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) is set to appear before the state Supreme Court on Thursday as judges weigh whether to hold him in...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to intervene in a lawsuit brought by a New York mother who wanted to send her child to kindergarten while a...
The construction of a massive White House ballroom is moving full steam ahead after the Supreme Court found a historic preservation group likely had...