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Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement Matthew Axelrod of the U.S. Commerce Department, is seen on cell phone as he speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

U.S. announces criminal cases involving flow of technology, information to Russia, China and Iran

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Semi-automatic handguns are displayed at shop in New Castle, Pa., March 25, 2020. A U.S. judge's ruling Wednesday, May 11, 2023, striking down a federal law that bans licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 is the latest example of how a landmark Supreme Court decision is transforming the legal landscape around firearms. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) **FILE**

What to know about judge’s ruling on age limit for young gun buyers

By Alanna Durkin Richer and Denise Lavoie - Associated Press

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves a House GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Feds arrest Rep. George Santos, allege he siphoned political funds and lied on House forms

By Tom Howell Jr. and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 7, 2015 file photo, Philip Esformes arrives at the 15th Annual Harold and Carole Pump Foundation Gala held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, in Los Angeles. The Florida health care executive is facing sentencing following his conviction on 20 criminal charges in what prosecutors described as a $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme. A Miami federal judge Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, is set to sentence 50-year-old Esformes in one of the biggest such cases in U.S. history. (Photo by Rob Latour/Invision/AP, File)

Feds reprosecuting man granted clemency by Trump, Congress demands answers

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Cybersecurity hacker. (Photo credit: ViChizh / Shutterstock) ** FILE **

U.S. busts Russian cyber operation in dozens of countries

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Michael Jenkins, second from right, stand with his mother, Mary Jenkins, center, and their attorneys at a news conference on Feb. 15. 2023, in Jackson, Miss., following his release from the hospital three weeks after being shot by sheriff's deputies. Mississippi deputies tried to assault two Black men with a sex toy and forced them to shower together during an hours-long interrogation in which Jenkins was shot in the mouth, the men’s attorney said in a letter to the U.S. Justice Department Monday, May 8, urging that civil rights charges be brought. (AP Photo/Michael Goldberg, File)

Deputies in civil rights probe accused of sexual assault

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Proud Boys 1/6 verdict boosts Justice Dept. in Trump probe

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Michael Kunzelman and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Attorney General Merrick Garland announces an international law enforcement operation targeting fentanyl and opioid traffickers on the Darknet during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Senators accuse AG Garland of ‘dishonesty’ over protection for Supreme Court justices

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illegal fentanyl is safely handled and contained. File photo credit: Darwin Brandis via Shutterstock.

DOJ announces takedown of fentanyl trafficking ring in dark shadows of the web

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump accuses ‘overly political’ National Archives of letting him leave W.H. with classified docs

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Gov. Bill Lee speaks during an interview with the media at Ridgedale Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., where Lee signed the Forever Homes Act, Monday, April 24, 2023. (Olivia Ross/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)

Biden administration sues to block Tennessee law barring transgender surgeries for minors

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio rallies in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 17, 2019. A federal jury is scheduled to hear a second day of attorneys’ closing arguments in the landmark trial for former Proud Boys extremist group leaders charged with plotting to violently stop the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Proud Boys Jan. 6 trial in hands of jury weighing conspiracy

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

"Harry" Lu Jianwang leaves Brooklyn federal court after his arraignment, Monday April 17, 2023, in New York. Justice Department officials say Jianwang and Chen Jinping, both U.S.citizens, were arrested on charges that they helped establish a secret police outpost in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Shutting down secret Chinese police stations isn’t racist

By Jeremy Hunt

Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson with U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves for the District of Columbia, speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at the Department of Justice in Washington. The Justice Department says British American Tobacco has agreed to a $629 million settlement to resolve allegations that it did illegal business with North Korea. In addition, federal prosecutors disclosed a cigarette trafficking scheme that raised money for North Korea's nuclear weapons program, announcing charges against three men — a North Korean banker and two Chinese facilitators. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Tobacco company reaches $629 million settlement with U.S. over business in North Korea

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

A six-story glass facade building, center, is believed to be the site of a foreign police outpost for China in New York's Chinatown, Monday, April 17, 2023. Justice Department officials say two men have been arrested on charges that they helped establish a secret police outpost in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

FBI arrests two in connection with secret Chinese ‘police station’ in New York

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, questions U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland as he testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House intelligence chair: DOJ ‘disingenuous’ on mishandled classified documents

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland arrives to speak at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, April 13, 2023. Garland announced that a Massachusetts Air National Guard member who has emerged as a main person of interest in the disclosure of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war was taken into custody Thursday by federal agents. FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate follows at right. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Justice announces major fentanyl charges against Mexican cartel leaders

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court is seen on Feb. 21, 2023, in Washington. The Supreme Court on Monday, April 3, declined to hear an appeal from a Louisiana death row inmate seeking a new sentencing hearing, over a dissent from the three liberal justices. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Abortion issue returns to Supreme Court as DOJ fights ruling on FDA’s pill approval

By Alex Swoyer and Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Sunday, April 9, 2023, stressed that women for now continue to have access to the abortion medication mifepristone after the Texas judge stayed his ruling for a week so federal authorities could file a challenge. The drug was approved by the FDA in 2000. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Justice Department calls abortion pill order ‘unprecedented’

By Paul J. Weber - Associated Press

People march through downtown Amarillo to protest a lawsuit to ban the abortion drug mifepristone Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas. Some Democrat-controlled states are advancing and adopting laws and executive orders intended to shield their residents against civil lawsuits and criminal investigations related to providing abortions for women from states where there are bans. (AP Photo/Justin Rex) **FILE**

DOJ seeks a stay of Texas abortion pill ruling

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times