William Barr

A federal prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William Barr to look into Obama administration officials’ “unmasking” of unnamed individuals in intelligence reports concluded his review without finding evidence of wrongdoing, according to a source with direct knowledge of the probe, and without interviewing former CIA Director John Brennan. Brennan told NBC News he was not interviewed by U.S. Attorney...

New York City is one of three places that “have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities,” leading to its designation as an “anarchist jurisdiction,” the Justice Department said Monday. Rather than idle words, the designation has potential financial consequences. President Trump issued a memo earlier this month…

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at the president blaming “blue states” for coronavirus deaths and Attorney General William Barr calling for sedition charges against protesters.

Attorney General William Barr is drawing sharp condemnation for comparing lockdown orders during the coronavirus pandemic to slavery.

The Justice Department has sent a memo to U.S. attorneys emphasizing that federal prosecutors should aggressively go after demonstrators who cause violence — and even sedition charges could potentially apply

Speaking at a Constitution Day celebration for the conservative Hillsdale College, Attorney General William Barr compared lockdown orders during the coronavirus pandemic to slavery.

Attorney General William Barr is taking aim at his own Justice Department, criticizing prosecutors for behaving as “headhunters” in their pursuit of prominent targets and politically charged cases.

Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday defended the Justice Department’s involvement in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump brought by E. Jean Carroll, who has accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s, NBC News reports.

Attorney General William Barr was in Chicago on Wednesday to lay out the scope of “Operation Legend”, which was deployed by the Department of Justice in an effort to help curb an uptick in violent crime across the country.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr is expected to hold a news conference to deliver an update on “Operation Legend” in Chicago Wednesday morning.

The U.S. Justice Department is asking to take over President Donald Trump’s defense in a defamation lawsuit from a writer who accused him of rape.

Attorney General William Barr says in a CNN interview that the vote-by-mail process is prone to “substantial fraud and coercion” and suggests that China poses more of a threat to election security than Russia.

Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday denied that systemic racism is a factor in the police shootings of unarmed Black men amid months of nationwide protests against racial injustice and police brutality, NBC News reports.

President Donald Trump toured damaged buildings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, despite requests from the city’s mayor and the governor of Wisconsin to reschedule. Trump visited with businesses affected by riots that occurred after Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake seven times during an arrest.

The Justice Department has notified the British government that it will not pursue the death penalty against two Islamic State militants suspected in the beheadings of Western hostages.

A former FBI lawyer has pleaded guilty to altering a document related to the secret surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser during the Russia investigation

Attorney General William Barr and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday presented starkly different views of nightly protests in Portland, Oregon, with Barr insisting that federal agents were there to protect the federal courthouse from rioters, and Democrats countering that their deployment in the Democratic-run city was meant to escalate violence and help President Donald Trump’s re-election.

Attorney General William Barr is defending the aggressive federal law enforcement response to civil unrest in America

Attorney General William Barr defended his office’s response to protests across the country as congressional Democrats accused him of protecting armed white protesters while attacking and arresting unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters.

Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., confronted Attorney General William Barr during a hearing on Tuesday on the conflicting and unequal response by law enforcement to suspects based on their race. “The department is not doing enough to address issues of racism, bias and brutality in law enforcement, when someone who commits mass murder is calmly arrested and served Burger King while...