Department of Justice

WATCH: Garland announces over $1 billion in penalties against mining giant Glencore over bribery investigation

By News Desk and Associated Press

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that mining giant Glencore is to pay more than a billon dollars after bribery investigations.

WATCH: Russian oligarch money should go ‘directly to Ukraine’, says Garland

By Associated Press

U. S. Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress Tuesday he supports legislation to allow some of the proceeds from assets the U.S. Justice Department seizes from Russian oligarchs to go "directly to Ukraine."…

WATCH: Attorney General Garland announces 12 arrests, including 3 soldiers, for firearms trafficking

By News Desk and Mike Balsamo, Associated Press

Twelve people, including three U.S. Army soldiers, are accused in a large-scale gun trafficking ring that prosecutors allege supplied nearly 100 guns to gang members in Chicago.

U.S. drops case against MIT professor accused of ties to China

By Eric Tucker, Associated Press

The Justice Department said in a filing Thursday in federal court in Boston that it could no longer meet its burden of proof at trial in the case against Gang Chen.

U.S. regulators take aim at illegal and anticompetitive mergers

By Marcy Gordon, Associated Press

Two agencies are seeking public comment on how current merger guidelines can be updated to better detect and prevent illegal and anticompetitive deals.

WATCH: Attorney General Merrick Garland vows accountability for anyone responsible for Jan. 6 Capitol riot

By Associated Press

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday vowed to hold accountable anyone who was responsible for last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, whether they were physically there or not.

WATCH: Department of Justice sues Texas over new redistricting maps

By News Desk

The Department of Justice has sued Texas over new redistricting maps, saying the plans discriminate against voters in the state's booming Latino and Black populations.

Jan. 6 panel to vote on contempt charges against former DOJ official

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

The vote to pursue contempt charges against Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department lawyer who aligned with Trump as he tried to overturn his election defeat, comes as Trump's top aide at the time, chief of staff Mark Meadows, has…

Biden team defends worker vaccine rule, wants challenges combined into single case

By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

At least 27 states plus several businesses and associations filed legal challenges in at least six federal appeals courts after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration released its mandate last week.

WATCH: U.S. charges two suspected major ransomware operators

By Eric Tucker, Alan Suderman, Associated Press

Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and other Department of Justice officials are holding a press briefing on "significant law enforcement matter".