The Justice Department has changed the guidance for a popular local police grant program, prioritizing border security and cutting language about "underserved populations," according to public documents reviewed by CBS News.

A new criminal investigation into Andrew Cuomo will fuel concerns that President Donald Trump is living up to his promise to use the Justice Department to target his political enemies.

The move by the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey to charge a Democratic U.S. congresswoman over a scuffle at an immigration detention center illustrated the Justice Department's readiness to move against President Donald Trump's political rivals.

U.S. District Judge Bernard Jones ruled the law, HB 4156, may not be enforced for at least 14 days while a court challenge proceeds. Jones said he will consider a longer-term injunction of the law after a court hearing in early June.

In an official document published on May 20 by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Matthew D. Lane, a student at Assumption University in Worcester and a resident of Sterling, Massachusetts, has been accused of hacking into the computer networks of two US-based companies and extorting them for ransoms.

A federal judge said Wednesday that the Trump Justice Department likely engaged in unconstitutional retaliation when it cut off grants to American Bar Association programs assisting victims of domestic violence.

(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Friday plans to meet with the victims of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019 ahead of a June 23 trial date the planemaker faces, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.

President Donald Trump’s political appointees at the department cited antisemitism on campuses as justification for using the law, the False Claims Act, to target universities and other institutions that Trump views as bastions of opposition to his agenda and a ripe populist target to rile up his right-wing base.