The January 6 riots left five people dead and highlighted a number of failures by security forces assigned to the Capitol.
Justice Department names Jack Smith, currently tasked with prosecuting war crimes in Kosovo, to oversee criminal investigations into ex-president Donald Trump — a decision Trump slams as "unfair."
Washington Post report did not identify foreign government discussed in document that FBI seized from Trump's Florida house, nor did it indicate whether the country was friendly or hostile to US.
The Justice Department said it can unseal other documents tied to the search but is against the disclosure of the affidavit itself.
US federal agents who searched ex-US president Donald Trump's Florida home this week removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, says Justice Department.
His appeal came hours after the Justice Department asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the “substantial public interest in this matter”.
Donald Trump and his allies seek to cast recent FBI search of his Florida residence as Democratic-driven effort to keep him from winning another term in 2024.
The indictment came hours after Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows refused to show up for a committee deposition after being subpoenaed.
In recent years, Iranian intelligence officers have tricked a number of overseas activists into travel to destinations where they were kidnapped and sent back to Iran, US authorities said.
US Justice Department says it has recovered more than half of $4.4 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to Russia-based ransomware extortionists Darkside, who had forced shutdown of major US fuel network.
Former US president Donald Trump criticised the federal investigation into Rudy Giuliani and said he had no idea what US agents were looking for when they searched his former personal lawyer's Manhattan apartment and office.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a sweeping investigation into policing in Louisville, Kentucky, over the March 2020 killing of the Black woman in a botched police raid.
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