The District of Columbia on Friday filed a lawsuit seeking to hold the federal government responsible for pollution in the Anacostia River, accusing it of systematically contaminating the river over the past 150 years by treating it as a dumping ground for sewage,

The Justice Department’s prosecution of the Jan. 6 ... a former federal prosecutor with the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia. Nearly 1,600 people accused of participating in the riot have faced charges, with more than half of ...

On January 7, 2025, the FTC and DOJ jointly filed a complaint against XCL, Verdun, and EP concerning an alleged gun-jumping violation. The

Simultaneous to filing its complaint, the department filed a proposed settlement, subject to approval by the court, under which the defendants have agreed to pay a $5.6 million civil penalty to resolve the lawsuit, a record civil penalty for illegal pre-merger coordination in violation of the HSR Act.

Friday in a sense was business as usual for a federal courthouse that has handled nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 cases. Still the day was charged with the extraordinary.

The D.C. Circuit said the federal government had shown that pepper spray can cause "serious bodily injury" and that the three men used it that way, therefore an enhancement was properly applied to the charges against them.

Rioters from the 2021 Capitol attack plan to attend Trump's inauguration, causing legal and public controversy

Addressing Arkansas’ homeless population and tackling elements of criminal justice are two social issues expected to

A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) judge has advised the head of the agency that the ball is back in her court with respect to the Biden administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal, providing notice of a request for leave to file appeal that he granted this week in the hearing proceedings.

TikTok, ByteDance and several users of the app sued to halt the ban, arguing it would suppress free speech for the millions of Americans who use the platform.

A Harrisonburg man was sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined $2,000 for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.