The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

The U.S. Justice Department is closing a task force that took on drug cartels and an office that aimed to ease racial tensions, in a reorganization that drops a plan to merge the nation's top drug and gun law enforcement agencies,

The Senate ended a stalemate to confirm a former go-to lawyer for President Donald Trump’s inner circle as the Justice Department’s third-in-command, along with other senior DOJ officials.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it had launched an investigation into Des Moines Public Schools in Iowa to determine whether the district engaged in race-based employment practices.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing the Senate Judiciary Committee for its annual hearing on oversight of the Justice Department.

The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it had filed lawsuits against California, New York, and four other states for not providing their voter registration lists to the department.

Activists are calling for broader reforms of the city’s police department as frustrations mount from three police shootings of Black men in recent years.