Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.
Iowa, on Wednesday described several FBI internal emails that appeared to discuss the early stages of the bureau's investigation into President Donald Trump and his use of fake electors to overturn the 2020 election.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a blizzard of executive orders and taken other actions since his inauguration on Jan. 20 to remake and reduce the size of America's 2.2 million-strong federal workforce.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.
The Justice Department has halted its appeal, which was aimed at reinstating the criminal charges against Trump's employees.
The messages showed that F.B.I. investigators took normal bureaucratic steps and precautions when opening an extraordinarily sensitive inquiry into Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
The Department of Justice, now under new leadership, has moved to drop its appeal of the classified documents case against Donald Trump's co-defendants.
The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen lawyers, involved in criminal investigations into Donald Trump during his campaign for president, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN,
Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.
Donald Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election during his confirmation hearing.
U.S. President Donald Trumpsigned an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests.
The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the pair could have faced.