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A judge appears poised to reject former President Donald Trump's attempt to move the New York criminal case that accuses him of falsifying business records tied to a hush money payment to federal court.

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General on Tuesday issued a scathing rebuke of the Bureau of Prisons detailing the multiple failures that led to the death of high-profile financier Jeffrey Epstein following his arrest in 2019 but found no evidence to contradict the "absence of criminality" in his death.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday wiped away a lower court decision upholding the stalking conviction of a Colorado man who sent hundreds of messages to a woman over Facebook.

Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday renewed his yearslong attack on a landmark First Amendment decision, with the conservative jurist again calling for the Supreme Court to revisit the "flawed" ruling in the 1964 case.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said that the Chinese military was "stronger" at the end of Donald Trump's presidency and accused the former president of being "singularly focused" on trade with China while he was in office.

The US Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions on four companies involved in "gold dealing" and one person they say made "weapons deals" tied to the Wagner Group.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is scheduled to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee on September 20, a source familiar with the plans told CNN.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a controversial legal theory that would've given partisan state lawmakers nearly unchecked power over US elections.

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that the North Carolina Supreme Court did not violate the elections clause of the US Constitution when it invalidated the state's 2022 congressional map

Miami mayor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez indicated in an interview on Tuesday that he was unfamiliar with the plight of Uyghur Muslims, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority in China whose treatment has been the subject of worldwide condemnation for years.

Pregnant workers should have an easier time getting a stool, extra bathroom breaks or a bottle of water without fear of getting fired, thanks to a new law that takes effect on Tuesday.

Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL and current CEO of Bridger Aerospace, announced his campaign to challenge Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, giving GOP leaders a prized recruit in a marquee race but setting up a potential primary clash with a hard-right Republican.

The January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was "essentially planned in plain sight on social media" and yet the FBI and Department of Homeland Security appeared to have "completely dropped the ball," a Senate committee concluded in the latest highly critical assessment of the security failures.

Walt Nauta, an aide charged alongside former President Donald Trump for the alleged mishandling of classified documents from the White House, is expected to plead not guilty to several charges in a Miami federal court Tuesday morning.

FBI Director Christopher Wray will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on July 12 for an oversight hearing, two sources familiar with the panel's planning told CNN.

CNN has exclusively obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Donald Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify.

Russia's short-lived insurrection has handed Joe Biden the most perilous version yet of a dilemma that has confounded the last five US presidents: how to handle Vladimir Putin.

The first hearing for Donald Trump and the special counsel's office before Judge Aileen Cannon in the Mar-a-Lago documents case will be in Fort Pierce, Florida, on July 14.

US intelligence officials were able to gather an extremely detailed and accurate picture of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's plans leading up to his short-lived rebellion, including where and how Wagner was planning to advance, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a lower court opinion that invalidated a code of conduct at a North Carolina publicly funded charter school that required girls to wear skirts in order to "preserve chivalry" based on the belief that every girl is a "fragile vessel."