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Justice Brett Kavanaugh attends President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol on March 4, in Washington, DC.

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California man to plead guilty to attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh in 2022

A California man is planning to plead guilty two years after he was charged in an alleged plot to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, his lawyers said Wednesday.

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a press conference after federal law enforcement officers captured an alleged “major leader” of MS-13 on March 27, 2025.

Alleged top MS-13 member arrested in Virginia was ‘leader for the East Coast,’ AG Bondi says

Federal law enforcement officers captured an alleged “major leader” of the MS-13 gang Thursday morning, President Donald Trump said on social media.

This 2016 photo shows guns with suppressors in West Valley City, Utah.

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DOJ considers abandoning the defense of federal restrictions on gun silencers

The Justice Department is evaluating whether to defend the federal government’s restrictions on gun silencers that have been in place since the 1930s as part of President Donald Trump’s order to reconsider positions that could limit gun rights.

Investigators look over the scene at a Tesla Collision Center after an individual used incendiary devices to set several vehicles on fire on March 18, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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FBI launches task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’

The FBI announced on Monday the creation of a task force intended to “crack down on violent Tesla attacks,” a move that follows a spate of such incidents appearing to target Elon Musk’s electric car manufacturer.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel speaks after he was sworn in during a ceremony in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on February 21, 2025, in Washington, DC.

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Patel plans major cutback to ATF by moving as many as 1,000 agents to FBI

FBI Director Kash Patel, who also serves as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, has outlined plans to move as many as 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI cutting ATF’s agents by more than a third, three people briefed on the plan told CNN.

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. Epstein is connected with several prominent people including politicians, actors and academics. Epstein was convicted of having sex with an underaged woman. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)

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FBI’s weekend homework: Redact the Epstein files

FBI agents are working around the clock – some in 12-hour overnight shifts – on a frenzied mission this week.

Police and other first responders work the scene where officials say dozens of people have been found dead and multiple others were taken to hospitals with heat-related illnesses after a tractor-trailer containing suspected migrants was found on June 27, 2022, in San Antonio.

Jury convicts two men in smuggling operation that killed 53 migrants

Two men involved in a smuggling operation were convicted of federal charges Tuesday for their part in a 2022 border crossing attempt that left 53 migrants dead after they were trapped in the back of of an unairconditioned tractor trailer in the hot Texas summer.

President Donald Trump speaks at the Justice Department on Friday.

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Takeaways from Donald Trump’s airing of grievances at the Justice Department

President Donald Trump excoriated the Justice Department prosecutors who investigated him and vowed to use it to target his own enemies in a campaign-style speech at the department’s historic Great Hall on Friday.

President Donald Trump congratulates Pam Bondi after she was sworn in as US Attorney General in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 5.

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Trump gives political speech at a Justice Department shaken by firings and dropped cases

President Donald Trump is set to deliver what the White House calls a law-and-order speech on Friday at the Justice Department, the storied building from which the government pursued criminal investigations and prosecutions against him.

People walk through Columbia University campus on the first day of the new semester in New York City, U.S., September 3, 2024.

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Justice Department is investigating bringing terrorism charges against pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University

The US Justice Department is investigating whether individuals involved in the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last year violated federal anti-terrorism laws, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday.

This photo posted to the social media platform X on March 5 by FBI Director Kash Patel shows Mohammad Sharifullah being escorted from a plane by two FBI officers. Editor's note: Portions of the faces of the FBI officers have been obscured by the FBI.

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Trump says US has apprehended ‘top terrorist’ responsible for 2021 Kabul airport bombing

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that the US has apprehended a “top terrorist” involved in the 2021 bombing at Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate in Afghanistan where 13 US service members and at least 170 Afghan civilians were killed.

Emil Bove looks on as US President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan at Manhattan Criminal Court on January 10, 2025, in New York City.

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Democrats lodge complaint against acting deputy Attorney General Emil Bove in New York over Eric Adams case

Senate Democrats are urging New York legal authorities to investigate whether acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove engaged in professional misconduct by engaging in a supposed quid-pro-quo to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller attends a press briefing at the White House on February 20, in Washington, DC.

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Trump’s White House has taken over the Justice Department’s PR strategy

Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared on Fox News last week to tease a major event: The Justice Department would release long-awaited documents related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Rafael Caro Quintero is escorted by FBI agents as he arrives in the US.

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Mexican drug lord appears before US judge, pleads not guilty to murder, kidnapping charges in DEA agent’s 1985 killing

Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero appeared before a judge in Brooklyn on Friday afternoon, pleading not guilty to charges related to his involvement in the decades-old killing of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

In this June 2023 photo, Ed Martin speaks at an event at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.

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Trump ally demotes at least 8 senior federal prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases

At least eight senior federal prosecutors who worked on the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot cases have been demoted to entry-level jobs, according to multiple sources and memos obtained by CNN.

Secret Service Agent Clint Hill rides on the back of the presidential limousine after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president.

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Secret Service agent who tried to shield President Kennedy and first lady in Dallas dies at 93

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who ran into the line of fire to shield President John F. Kennedy and the first lady in Dallas on November 22, 1963, died Friday. He was 93 years old.

Hannah Rabinowitz is a reporter for CNN covering the Justice Department.

Based in Washington DC, Rabinowitz previously worked as a producer covering the Department of Justice, law enforcement and legal matters.