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FILE – New York City mayor Eric Adams departs Manhattan federal court after an appearance, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Justice Department orders prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams

By Jake Offenhartz, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks after being sworn in by Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington, as President Donald Trump looks on. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

New Attorney General Pam Bondi calls for creation of ‘weaponization working group’ to review Jack Smith’s Trump cases

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker, and others

Trump attorney Emil Bove

Top DOJ official accuses FBI chief of ‘insubordination’ but tries to dampen talk of revenge on agents ‘who simply followed orders’

By Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

FILE – Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump Justice Department says it has fired over a dozen employees who were involved in prosecutions of president

By Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

White House 'border czar' Tom Homan

Trump ‘border czar’ and other top officials in Chicago for start of illegal immigration crackdown

By Sophia Tareen, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order commuting sentences for people convicted of Jan. 6 offenses in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump pardons over 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who assaulted police

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Michael Kunzelman, and others

FILE – Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Special counsel Jack Smith’s much-anticipated report says Trump would have been convicted if he hadn’t been elected

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker, and others

FILE – Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Federal court denies bid to block release of Jack Smith report on Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss

By Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

FILE – Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

DOJ says it plans to hold back part of Jack Smith’s report about Trump’s hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

By Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

FILE – In this courtroom sketch Defendant Alexander Smirnov speaks in Federal court in Los Angeles, Feb. 26, 2024. (William T. Robles via AP, File)

Ex-FBI informant who made up Ukraine bribery story about Biden and son Hunter gets 6 years in prison

By Alanna Durkin Richer and The Associated Press

This undated photo, provided by the Las Vegas Police Department shows an ID belonging to Matthew Livelsberger, found inside a Tesla Cybertruck involved in an explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.

Army Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound before Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas

By Tara Copp, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

A Tesla Cybertruck on fire after detonating outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas

Matthew Livelsberger, who died in the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas, was a highly decorated Green Beret

By Tara Copp, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

FILE – Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, left, walks out of his lawyer’s office in downtown Las Vegas after being released from federal custody Feb. 20, 2024. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

Former FBI informant will plead guilty to lying about a phony bribery scheme involving Biden and son Hunter

By Alanna Durkin Richer and The Associated Press

FILE – Hunter Biden steps into a vehicle as he leaves federal court, Sept. 5, 2024, in Los Angeles, after pleading guilty to federal tax charges. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)

Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter. What does that mean and why did he break his promise not to?

By Colleen Long, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

FILE – President Joe Biden, wearing a Team USA jacket and walking with his son Hunter Biden, heads toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, July 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to

By Zeke Miller, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others