Author: Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY

Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorney John Pierce, whose firm owes millions, has stepped away from the #FightBack Foundation defense fund that raised $700,000.

Trump’s Justice Department has launched a criminal inquiry into the leadership and financing of protests against police brutality.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf ordered an investigation into agency’s intelligence unit which assembled reports on journalists in Portland.

Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded not guilty and will be held in jail in a case related to Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking operation.

Appeals court puts hold on first federal executions in 17 years, as Daniel Lewis Lee was set to die for killing a family.

President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is back in federal custody in an apparent dispute over conditions of his early prison release.

Geoffrey Berman firing: AG Barr’s glowing account of NY prosecutor’s work further clouds dismissal

But now Trump is distancing himself from the firing of Geoffrey Berman after Attorney General Barr said the president was behind the decision.

The decision to abandon the prosecution of Michael Flynn, analysts said, adds a new chapter to the steady dismantling of Robert Mueller’s work that has long threatened Trump’s presidency.

The DOJ’s action marks the second time the federal government has sided with a church in a dispute over in-person worship services.