Republican attorneys general are putting President-elect Donald Trump's prosecutors on notice, urging them to halt "political prosecutions of the incoming president." "The cases brought against ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking reproductive rights facilities, calling the ...

Federal prosecutors pursued a record number of cases of threats against public officials last year, according to a new study. This week also saw new extremist prosecutions and hate crime charges ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of ...

The US Justice Department is prosecuting fewer white-collar criminals now than at any time since records back more than 30 years ago, a new report says. Federal prosecutions of white-collar criminals ...

The government is to review the oversight of private and non-police prosecutions, in light of the Post Office Horizon scandal and wider controversies that suggest there may be insufficient safeguards ...

What do a couple of Spokane sheriff’s deputies who killed a loose calf, a state attorney general and a Mason County child services worker have in common? They’ve all been targeted in citizen-initiated ...

Earlier this year, the lord chief justice Lord Thomas commented upon an apparent increase in private prosecutions, at what he perceived to be a time of economic retrenchment, in areas where the state ...

As the Russian military continues to pound Ukraine, evidence of war crimes keeps mounting. Could perpetrators be held to account under international law? If so, how soon could that happen? And what do ...

A new report finds an “alarming” drop in prosecutions over violations of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, fundamental environmental laws. By John Schwartz Prosecutions of environmental crimes ...