The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment.

Analysts have used other evidence to conclude that the transfers were most likely part of an effort to offer payments to Taliban-linked militants to kill American and coalition troops in Afghanistan.

The investigation into Russia’s suspected operation is said to focus in part on the killings of three Marines in a truck bombing last year, officials said.

Documents provided to The New York Times shed light on the Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh’s years in the George W. Bush administration.

The revelation that the agency had not audited Donald J. Trump during his first two years in office despite a mandatory presidential audit program raised concerns about potential politicization.

Attorney General William P. Barr sent a letter to Congress last month citing brief fragments from the Mueller report. Now that the document is public, his selections are coming under scrutiny.

The Army intelligence analyst convicted in a 2010 leak of security documents is set to be freed this May instead of in 2045.

The prosecutor is one of two Justice Department officials coming forward whom Democrats are calling whistle-blowers.

Gov. Andy Beshear (D) previously vetoed a 2021 law that requires him to replace an outgoing senator with someone of the same party, but the Republican-controlled legislature overrode the veto.

After a Russia expert who had collected research on Donald Trump for a disputed dossier agreed to tell the F.B.I. what he knew about it, law enforcement officials declassified a road map to identif...

In a memo for the Trump team during the Russia investigation, the attorney general wrote that presidents who misuse their authority are subject to impeachment.

The White House denied that President Trump was briefed on the classified assessment, even though his staff has been discussing the matter since March.

The finding came in an order directing the Justice Department to hand over secret grand jury evidence from the Mueller investigation to House impeachment investigators.

The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry.

Here is how Trump’s use of executive privilege to thwart congressional oversight, and lawmakers’ threat to hold his aides in contempt, could play out.

Amid turmoil in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, the attorney general has also sent outside prosecutors to review other politically sensitive cases.

The former president failed to derail the criminal investigation into his hoarding of sensitive documents and is stuck paying for a costly process that threatens to undermine his public claims.

In an interview, Mr. Trump again insisted that “I declassified everything.” He added that as president, “you can declassify just by saying ‘it’s declassified’ — even by thinking about it.”

The attorney general misstated key facts in explaining the dismissed official’s handling of the whistle-blower complaint that prompted impeachment.

The president also signed off on targeting about a dozen Shabab leaders in the war-torn country, from which Donald J. Trump largely withdrew in his final weeks in office.

The release offered a rare glimpse of national security wiretap files and raised echoes of a fight in February over the Russia inquiry between Republicans and Democrats on the House Intelligence...

Bounties were paid by Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, but it couldn’t be determined whether the actions resulted in any American combat deaths in Afghanistan.

Under fire by Turkish forces, the militia that battled ISIS threw in its lot with Syria’s Russian-backed government.

Declaring a national emergency over a border wall lets the president avoid another damaging shutdown while not surrendering. But it could do long-term damage, experts say.

The invasion of privacy suit accuses the Trump campaign and a top adviser of conspiring with Russia in its release of hacked data that exposed the plaintiffs’ personal details to the public.

The rule codifies and expands a policy he issued in 2021, after it came to light that the Trump administration had secretly gone after records of reporters for The Times, The Washington Post and CNN.

President Barack Obama was caught on camera on Monday assuring outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have "more flexibility" to deal with contentious issues like missile defense...

A high-profile inspector general report has served as fodder for arguments about President Trump. But its findings about surveillance are important beyond partisan politics.

The president notified lawmakers late on Friday, saying he had lost confidence in the inspector general for the intelligence community.

The analysts are seeking to draw attention to the option of sending a grand jury report to Congress, which they called “a key precedent.”

The special counsel stopped short of declaring whether acts by the president were illegal attempts to impede the investigation. But his report is a detailed map to conclusions.

President Trump ousted his attorney general and put Mr. Whitaker, a partisan defender who insisted there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, in charge of the Justice Department.

The New York Times argues that President Trump lowered the shield of secrecy surrounding documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, a onetime Trump campaign adviser.

Read the affidavit that outlined the Justice Department’s case for obtaining a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald J. Trump’s Florida home and private club, on Aug. 8.

In a signing statement, the president undermined a key safeguard Democrats had insisted upon as a condition of approving $500 billion in corporate relief in the $2 trillion law.

A federal judge had temporarily barred the department from using the records marked as classified in its inquiry into whether the former president illegally retained national defense documents.

Supervisors denied civil-rights prosecutors’ request to use a grand jury for their investigation into the 2014 shooting of a Black boy by a Cleveland police officer, but did not tell his family.

The famed source of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, has made another unauthorized disclosure — and wants to be prosecuted for it.

The step signals a major shift in American policy and ends months of resistance by Pentagon officials who feared setting a precedent that could pave the way for the court to prosecute U.S. troops.

According to the Federal Register, 58 national emergencies have been declared since the National Emergency Act of 1976 was signed into law by President Gerald Ford.

Unredacted portions of the affidavit underlying the Mar-a-Lago search warrant point to a crime that has been overshadowed amid disputes over classified information.

“What’s the expression — ‘Where’s the beef?’ I need some beef,” Judge Raymond Dearie, the independent arbiter, said during a conference call.

None of the three criminal laws cited in the search warrant turn on whether documents have been deemed to be classified.

The disclosure comes amid growing legislative scrutiny of how the government uses commercially available location records.

The chief clerk of the courts for the Southern District of Florida added that Judge Aileen M. Cannon had been randomly assigned to the case.