Dealing a significant blow to a signature Trump administration immigration policy, a U.S. appeals court has ruled that the government can no longer make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through the immigration courts

In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee on February 25, 2020, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said “while the immediate risk to individual members of the American public remains low,” the transmission outside the U.S. in a number of countries is “deeply concerning.”

A U.S. appeals court has upheld Trump administration rules that bar health care providers in the federal family planning program for low-income women from referring patients for abortions.

President Donald Trump pushed aside his acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, in anger over what he perceived to be an inappropriate congressional briefing by the top intelligence official in charge of election security, a former senior U.S. official familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News.

Pete Buttigieg continued his public feud with Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday following remarks the conservative talk show host made about the presidential hopeful’s sexuality and husband.

President Trump’s tweets and retweets targeting the Justice Department’s handling of the Russia investigation continue, despite push-back from Attorney General William Barr.

The Trump administration is waiving federal contracting laws to speed construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, moving the president closer to fulfilling a signature campaign promise in an election year but sparking criticism about potential for fraud, waste and abuse

Federal agents who normally patrol the U.S. border will be deployed to “sanctuary” cities across the country that are hindering stepped up immigration enforcement, officials said Friday.

Federal agents who normally patrol the U.S. border will be deployed to “sanctuary” cities across the country that are hindering stepped up immigration enforcement, officials said Friday.

The Department of Justice has told lawyers for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that he will not face criminal charges for allegedly lying to investigators about a leak to the media, the ex-official’s attorneys said Friday. The decision was released on the same day it was revealed that a federal judge had expressed concerns months ago that McCabe’s...

A plan to send border agents to sanctuary cities is being met with concern and criticism from the mayors of Boston and Somerville.

A federal appeals court rejected a Trump administration rule that allowed Arkansas and other states to impose work requirements on its low-income residents who received Medicaid benefits, further blocking a marquee issue for the president. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that the White House had acted unlawfully and that Health Secretary Alex Azar’s...

President Trump is facing rare disapproval from some of his most loyal allies: Attorney General William Barr and Senate Republicans.

The Justice Department recently opened an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the FBI’s interview of Michael Flynn while he was serving as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, NBC News reported, citing two people familiar with the inquiry. Flynn pleaded guilty to giving false statements to the FBI during that interview, but recently asked to withdraw that plea, further delaying...

The Justice Department has added new criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei and two of its U.S. subsidiaries

Attorney General William Barr publicly swiped at President Donald Trump on Thursday, declaring the president’s tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and open cases “make it impossible for me to do my job.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the Department of Justice getting involved in the sentencing in the Roger Stone case is “an abuse of power.”

The former U.S. attorney whose office oversaw the Roger Stone prosecution resigned from the Trump administration Wednesday, two days after President Donald Trump abruptly withdrew her nomination for a top job at the Treasury Department, NBC News reported. Jessie Liu had headed the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., which oversaw several cases that originated with former special counsel Robert Mueller’s...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday declined to say whether he was considering a pardon for his longtime confidant Roger Stone, leaving open the possibility for such action just a day after the Department of Justice announced it would reduce Stone’s recommended sentencing.

President Donald Trump defended removing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the White House’s National Security Council by claiming that Vindman’s “superior … publicly stated that Vindman had problems with judgement, adhering to the chain of command and leaking information.” But the latter claim leaves a false impression, and the others omit important context. Trump is referring to Timothy Morrison,...