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168 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 11, 2026.
An indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges Edgar Aaron Vazquez Alvarado, known as 'El General,' supplied code words for passing checkpoints and bribed officials on behalf of the former snowboarder's drug network.
WatchThe discharge petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act II crossed the threshold Wednesday with four Republicans and every Democrat signing on.
Legal experts say the unopposed bid is part of a pattern of the DOJ wiping the slate clean for Trump allies; a judge may still appoint an outside lawyer to argue the other side.
A superseding indictment says Mohammad Al-Saadi, now in federal custody in New York, directed fuel-filled vans toward the British base that houses U.S. troops.
Dhillon, who oversaw the departure of more than three quarters of the division's workforce, says she is returning to private practice after the midterms.
A federal judge in Seattle issued a 14-day order stopping the Justice Department from demanding officials segregate the ballots or threatening prosecution for counting them.
About 20 letters went out in the days before the election, and Democratic lawyer Marc Elias says he is a target of what he calls a sham investigation.
WatchA one-line, unsigned order on the eve of the midterms denies the Justice Department's emergency request to force California to quarantine mail ballots from voters it calls noncitizens.
WatchThe Justice Department filed an emergency appeal Monday after a 9th Circuit panel refused to make California segregate mail ballots from people on a government list of suspected noncitizens.
Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui called the Hunter Biden-related false-statements case 'slapdash' after a three-day hearing and said the government failed to show probable cause on every element.
Judge Sharon Gleason ruled the Justice Department cannot bring the suit and said the relief it sought would likely violate Alaskans' right to a secret ballot. DOJ says it will appeal.
A temporary restraining order blocks prosecutors from demanding that ballots from alleged noncitizens be set aside, and an appeals court refused the same request.
The former Clarence Thomas clerk led the bureau's rewrite of firearms regulations. Sources say he sometimes split with DOJ leaders on litigation strategy.
WatchA DOJ official cites a 'significant increase in activity' after a New York Times report on internal emails and texts. No one has been charged, and Mary Peltola's campaign denies any role.
Jacksonville, St. Louis, Baton Rouge and Jackson won the Model Cities Initiative out of about 50 applicants. Attorney General Todd Blanche will visit each over the next 10 days.
Prosecutors filed a criminal information alleging an Espionage Act violation tied to a 2016 news story; his lawyers say the charge is time-barred and that two U.S. attorney's offices already declined it.
WatchAt least two employees of the county registrar's office are ordered to appear Nov. 4, a day after a federal judge rejected the DOJ's bid to set aside ballots from 20,000 'likely' noncitizens.
Mohamed Soliman, already serving life without parole on state charges, admitted to the 2025 attack on a march for Israeli hostages that killed Karen Sorin Diamond.
WatchFederal prosecutors failed to persuade grand jurors to charge the former White House aide whose 2022 testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee angered President Trump and his allies.
Federal prosecutors gave Secretary of State Steve Hobbs 48 hours to act on a list of alleged noncitizen voters, and he says the list is riddled with errors.
Observers will be posted at polling places in Portland and Lewiston as part of a record push for about 1,000 monitors nationwide. Maine's secretary of state says their role is "observation only."
Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said he had never seen an unsworn, unsigned complaint filed on the public docket in the Hunter Biden laptop case, a week before the midterms.
A CBS News review finds at least three documents pointing to classified information in the files and tens of thousands of pages apparently removed, including Epstein's own financial records.
A 2-1 Ninth Circuit panel said prosecutors sued less than three weeks before the midterms, as Los Angeles County found most sampled names were inactive registrations.
WatchNewly unsealed filings show prosecutors used a 'criminal information' to stop a 10-year clock on a 2016 New York Times story. Comey's lawyers say the charge is invalid.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman calls the administration's theory of unlimited firing power over federal prosecutors "sweeping and unprecedented."
WatchThe attorney general says the Justice Department is not laying groundwork for Trump to contest the midterms, days before voters pick between Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola.
WatchThe Justice Department wants Alaska's ballots preserved so it can challenge the result if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses to Democrat Mary Peltola. Trump says he told prosecutors to file.
Election officials were given 48 hours to hand over voter information. The state says the letters contained errors, and local registrars say they are counting votes as usual.
Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides each face one count. Floris's lawyers say the charges came "on the eve of an election" and are no coincidence.
WatchThe 82-year-old Democrat, a leading Trump critic, surrendered Thursday on a 45-page indictment alleging bribery, money laundering and a drug conspiracy tied to her cannabis shop, weeks before the midterms.
WatchWith the midterms two weeks away, 60 Minutes reports that federal agents have seized ballots, the Justice Department has sued states that refused to hand over voter rolls, and a Republican election chief says she is under federal investigation.
In an Oct. 16 letter, attorneys for the Minnesota congresswoman demand her property back and accuse agents of skipping protections for a sitting member of Congress. The Justice Department calls the letter "riddled with false allegations."
Worry about ICE agents at polling places is driving left-leaning groups to train observers, while the Justice Department says it will send 1,000 monitors.
The suit asks a federal court to bar California from counting mail ballots from suspected noncitizens; the state calls the department's voter-roll claims unsubstantiated.
Under Harmeet Dhillon, the division has dropped police and voting cases, pursued law schools and universities over alleged bias against white and Asian students, and hired about 130 replacements, many with little civil rights experience.
WatchThe Sherman Act investigation targets the five networks for declining to fill in for CNN after the White House shut it out of the press pool. A federal judge says he will rule Tuesday on whether to restore the passes of CNN, MS NOW and Politico.
The guidance covers Attorney General Todd Blanche, U.S. attorneys and the FBI director, and goes further than the loosening Pam Bondi began, reversing a stricter Biden-era policy.
Prosecutors are presenting evidence to a D.C. grand jury on whether the former White House aide lied to Congress, and the Civil Rights Division is handling the case.
Former Justice Department officials call the White House adviser's appearance at FBI headquarters unusual, given his role as an alleged victim and potential witness in the case.
Judge David Leibowitz in Miami wrote that Congress lacked the power to pass the federal statute, which leaves voter qualifications to the states.
WatchA former Nixon aide pitched the Office of Professional Responsibility on 'Watergate as Lawfare.' The department says it is not an investigation, but the review is open.
U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian ruled the president "cannot unilaterally fire" a prosecutor appointed by the district court, the first win for a judicially appointed U.S. attorney in the fight over control of federal prosecutor offices.
Attorney General Todd Blanche says the defendants voted in the 2022 and 2024 general elections or this year's August primary. The charges equal a tiny share of Minnesota's 8.5 million ballots.
WatchAttorney General Todd Blanche accuses eight judges of breaking ethics rules by talking to The New York Times about the immigration surge. Judge Patrick Schiltz says he acted well within the rules.
The Justice Department filed an emergency appeal after a federal judge and the D.C. Circuit kept a Bureau of Prisons policy on hold. The rules would end hormone therapy and items like wigs and chest binders.
The former Missouri attorney general cited family reasons. Sources told CBS News that Patel kept him at arm's length and cut him out of meetings.
Geovany Andrés Rojas had been shielded from extradition as a peace negotiator. Colombia's new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, lifted that protection and oversaw his transfer.
Blanche said existing criminal statutes are enough, days after OpenAI disclosed its agents interacted with SEC and Census websites. Bill Gates, speaking on NBC, said a global AI deal will be harder than Cold War nuclear talks.
Judge P. Kevin Castel ruled the Clean Air Act preempts the law, which would have made fossil fuel companies pay for climate damage. It is the Justice Department's second win against the law this month.
Civil Rights chief Harmeet Dhillon called the decades-old consent decrees 'onerous and outdated.' The NAACP's general counsel said the move threatens to 'fuel resegregation.'
The deals resolve allegations that providers used false diagnosis codes to bill insurers and federal programs. NYU had already shut its youth program in February. Mount Sinai, Texas Children's, Cleveland Clinic and Connecticut Children's have signed similar agreements, and DOJ says investigations into other hospitals 'are ongoing.'
The Office of Legal Counsel opinion by T. Elliot Gaiser says the law fails the Supreme Court's 2022 history-and-tradition test because Founding-era militia statutes required 18-year-olds to show up with their own guns. It binds no court, but it tells every federal prosecutor to stand down. Everytown called it a 'dangerous dereliction of duty.'
Judge James Wesley Hendrix found that once Congress zeroed out the $200 tax on 'gangster weapons' in last year's One Big Beautiful Bill, the National Firearms Act's rules lost their constitutional footing. The appeal deadline is October 5. Anyone who joins the gun groups that sued is covered.
A Fourth Circuit panel heard arguments Tuesday in a case that has been sealed since November. Judge Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, asked whether an 'overbroad disclosure order that reveals sources' compromises a reporter's interest.
Five men, including two Cubans and a 22-year-old Venezuelan, were charged in Manhattan with financing terrorism and murder for hire. All of them are believed to be in Russia.
The attorney general said the Supreme Court's mail-ballot ruling changes nothing about the DOJ's election work, citing 11 illegal-voting charges in ten days. 'We're prosecutors, not regulators,' he said of AI.
The civil False Claims Act settlement announced Monday covers the Cronobacter contamination that triggered the 2022 Similac recall and a nationwide formula shortage. Abbott says it 'does not represent any finding of fault,' and Sen. Adam Schiff is still asking why prosecutors were told to stand down.
The suspensions, tied to an estimated $39 billion in suspected PPP and EIDL fraud, were announced in Kansas City alongside a summer 'Heartland fraud surge' that produced more than 160 defendants. One Missouri man is accused of claiming to own dozens of businesses, including 'Fur Lives Matter.'
The former CIA director's lawyer disclosed the subpoena in a court filing and said Brennan also remains a target in a separate Washington investigation into whether he lied to Congress in 2023.
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