A man pleaded guilty to smuggling three women from Cuba and forcing them to work in San Antonio and other cities, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release Wednesday.
A North Side towing company agreed to pay a six-figure settlement to military servicemembers on Thursday for allegedly illegally scraping and selling parts of their cars dating back to 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed in a news release.
A former federal prosecutor is facing federal charges over allegations that she sent a report detailing Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents to her personal email account, despite a judge’s order to keep it secret.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's demands for confidential transgender patient information from Rhode Island's largest hospital.
The Justice Department is challenging efforts to sanction attorneys from the first and second Trump administrations, asserting in a lawsuit that the District of Columbia Bar is unfairly playing politics with the legal disciplinary process.
A San Antonio man has pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges related to ATM explosions and possession of guns, according to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) news release.
A former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci has been indicted on federal charges alleging he conspired to hide his communications related to COVID-19 research as the pandemic unfolded.
The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.
A San Antonio man was sentenced on Tax Day to more than three years in federal prison for tax evasion, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a news release.
An Eagle Pass man was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday for trafficking numerous drugs on a native reservation while armed with guns, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
A federal judge has thrown out a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing Colorado and Denver of interfering with the enforcement of immigration laws.
The Justice Department has filed a new lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing it of failing to address antisemitism on campus.
An Eagle Pass man was sentenced to 14 years and two months in prison for his role in a human smuggling operation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
The Justice Department has released additional Jeffrey Epstein files involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump that the department said had been mistakenly withheld during an earlier review.
The Justice Department says it is looking into whether it improperly withheld documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The longevity expert Dr. Peter Attia has resigned from a contributor's role at CBS News after his name surfaced in hundreds of documents released as part of the Epstein files.
Lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to Jeffrey Epstein, saying a law used to force the recent public release of millions of documents is unconstitutional.
A San Antonio man pleaded guilty Tuesday in connection with an investment fraud scheme worth $69.5 million, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
British police forces are working together to assess potential crimes revealed in documents from the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A man was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for his role in a human smuggling operation, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release Wednesday.
The Department of Justice will allow members of Congress to review unredacted files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A Bexar County man has been indicted on three counts in connection with the alleged tampering of public water systems, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
The Justice Department is intensifying efforts to choke off cartels’ financial networks, targeting the money launderers who are increasingly relying on cryptocurrency to move drug proceeds from the U.S. to Mexico.
A federal judge who presided over the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein says a Wednesday conference to address harm done to the financier's victims by a massive release of records isn't needed after a deal was struck to protect their identities.
The Justice Department says it has taken down several thousand documents and “media” that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information after lawyers for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's victims complained of insufficient redactions.
A New Braunfels woman was sentenced to over two years in prison and ordered to pay more than $1.25 million in restitution for wire fraud, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says a woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church has been arrested.
A judge says congressional cosponsors of a law forcing the Justice Department to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell can sue to seek a court-appointed observer to ensure compliance.
Several faith leaders are urgently calling for protecting the rights of worshippers while also expressing compassion for migrants.
Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor said Friday that a judge lacks the authority to appoint a neutral expert to oversee the public release of documents in the sex trafficking probe of financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
A 21-year-old Texas man who authorities say provided bomb materials and money to people he believed were affiliated with the Islamic State group has been federally charged with international terrorism.
The Justice Department said Wednesday that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress.
The Justice Department says that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress.
The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, D.C., over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights.
A judge has scolded Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell for including confidential victim names in court papers seeking to set aside her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence.
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
The Department of Justice has published thousands of its files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
A man was arrested after federal agents found a “home explosives lab” at a north Bexar County home, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
A San Antonio woman was sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay more than $492,000 after defrauding a COVID relief program, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.
A Maine principals' group is resisting a U.S. Department of Justice subpoena seeking the names of all students playing interscholastic sports.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has advanced in Tuesday's preliminary election and will face the son of the Patriots owner in November.
The U.S. Department of Justice has requested access to voting equipment used in the 2020 election in two Missouri counties in what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to more closely monitor election processes around the country.
A Texas Mexican Mafia leader from San Antonio was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking scheme, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.
Justice Department indictments have been unsealed against three leaders and two high-ranking enforcers of Mexico's United Cartels.
A federal judge ruled Monday dismissed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for rescinding nearly $800 million dollars in grants for programs supporting violence reduction and crime victims.
The Justice Department has announced criminal charges in connection with a scheme by North Korea to fund its weapons program through the salaries of remote information technology employed unwittingly by U.S. companies.
State and federal prosecutors have charged more than 320 people in the largest coordinated takedown of health care fraud schemes in Justice Department history that uncovered nearly $15 billion in false claims.
A San Antonio woman was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Thursday for producing videos depicting sexual abuse of a child, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.
President Donald Trump’s administration has asked a federal judge to strike down a Kentucky regulation that it says unlawfully provides undocumented students with access to reduced in-state college tuition.
Seven members of the Partido Revolucionario Mexicano (PRM) prison gang were recently sentenced to a combined 137 years in prison in a Del Rio court, according to the Department of Justice.
A San Antonio man was arrested over the weekend for his alleged role in two armored truck robberies that happened in 2023, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.
An information technology specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency has been charged with attempting to transmit classified information to a representative of a foreign government.
The Justice Department has moved to cancel settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky, that called for an overhaul of policing following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into hiring practices at the city of Chicago in response to comments made by Mayor Brandon Johnson at a church Sunday, praising the number of and naming Black people in top positions in his administration.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas says the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state’s largest mosques near Dallas.
Walgreens has agreed to pay up to $350 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, who accused the pharmacy of illegally filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade for opioids and other controlled substances.
A San Antonio man was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for his involvement with a gun theft and trafficking conspiracy, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
A used car dealership manager in San Antonio has been sentenced and fined for odometer tampering by a federal court, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.
A 20-year-old New Braunfels man was sentenced to more than six years in prison Wednesday for planning mass murder attacks, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release.
Senate Bill 4, the Texas law that makes illegally crossing the border a state crime, will continue to be challenged by two immigrant rights groups and El Paso County.
President Donald Trump delivered what sounded like one of his typical meandering, grievance-laden campaign speeches on Friday, but it was where he did it — inside the U.S. Department of Justice — that mattered.
China is denying the U.S. Justice Department’s accusations against 12 Chinese nationals charged in connection with global cybercrime campaigns targeting dissidents, news organizations, U.S. agencies and universities.
An immigrant was sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison Wednesday for trafficking drugs to San Antonio and other areas of South Texas, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The decision to halt the program could prevent thousands of people detained in immigration detention centers from receiving legal advice.
U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled that Google maintained an illegal monopoly.
The U.S. Department of Justice is considering asking a federal judge to force Google to sell parts of its business in order to eliminate its online search monopoly.
U.S. stocks rose to records after the latest wild swerves for Chinese stocks left few ripples in markets worldwide.
A Texas Juvenile Justice Department report says Dallas County officers kept kids in their sleeping quarters for days at a time and faked school attendance logs.
Alaska Air is one step closer to acquiring Hawaiian Airlines after the U.S. Department of Justice chose not to challenge the $1.9 billion deal that the carriers say will create a company better able to serve travelers.
The Department of Justice said kids in state custody at all five Texas Juvenile Justice Department facilities have been frequently subjected to excessive force, sexual abuse and other civil rights violations.
The federal government alleges in a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern that the railroad has been causing chronic delays for Amtrak between New York and New Orleans by forcing the passenger trains to wait while its massive freight trains pass.
Juan Carlos Ramirez Bibiano, an inmate at Telfair State Prison in Georgia, died of heart and lung failure after officers left him in an outdoor cell in the summer heat for five hours without water or ice, despite instructions from a warden to limit the amount of time inmates spend outdoors, a lawsuit filed by his family says.
Prosecutors say the leader of a violent neo-Nazi extremist group based in eastern Europe has been charged with plotting to have an associate dress up as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to Jewish children in New York City to sow terror.
The U.S. Justice Department says a former CIA employee and senior official at the National Security Council has been charged with serving as a secret agent for South Korea’s intelligence service.
The Justice Department has charged nearly 200 people in a sweeping crackdown on health care fraud schemes nationwide with false claims topping $2.7 billion.
A Minnesota city and the U.S. Department of Justice have reached an agreement addressing allegations the city discriminated against mentally ill residents in enforcing an anti-crime law.
A federal lawsuit asserts that the Texas agency terminated a state prison clerk who refused to remove a head covering in line with her Ifa faith.
Nippon Steel says it has postponed the expected closing of its $14.1 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by three months after the U.S. Department of Justice requested more documentation related to the deal.
The Justice Department is ramping up its efforts to reduce violent crime in the U.S., launching a specialized gun intelligence center in Chicago and expanding task forces to curb carjackings.
A leader in the Southern Baptist Convention says the U.S. Department of Justice has ended its investigation of a top denominational agency's handling of sexual abuse and doesn’t anticipate further action.
Four foreign nationals have been arrested and charged with transporting suspected Iranian-made weapons after U.S. naval forces interdicted a vessel in the Arabian Sea last month.
Hundreds of communities across the U.S. have for decades tried to reduce crime, fight gangs and tackle noise and other neighborhood problems through the use of “crime-free” or “public nuisance” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict renters when police or emergency crews are repeatedly called to the same addresses.
Hundreds of U.S. communities have enacted “crime-free” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict tenants after repeated calls to police or for emergency services.
The Uvalde Police Department took action to improve the way the law enforcement agency responds to a crisis such as mass shootings prior to the U.S. Department of Justice’s critical incident review of the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers, the city said in a news release Thursday.
A new lawsuit says opening a spillway as a flood-control measure in 2019 sent polluted fresh water from the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and killed bottlenose dolphins that live in saltwater.
A Texas man has pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 13-year-old girl who was rescued in California last year when a passerby saw her hold up a “Help Me!”.
A San Antonio criminal law attorney says the U.S. Department of Justice report carries a lot of weight when considering filing criminal charges in the Robb Elementary shooting.
A scathing Justice Department report into law enforcement failures during the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, includes a minute-by-minute account of missteps by police at the scene.
The Department of Justice on Thursday released a nearly 600-page report on law enforcement’s response to the Uvalde massacre that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
The DOJ’s Critical Incident Review was privately presented to the families of the 21 victims Wednesday evening before being released to the public Thursday.
Officials say the U.S. Department of Justice has closed its review of the case of a drug suspect who was repeatedly punched, elbowed and kneed by police officers during a traffic stop in northeast Florida.