The lawsuit seeks a ruling that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem violated the First Amendment after they allegedly “strong-armed” Apple to remove an app developed by a company founded by a Brown County resident.
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration set a Dec. 2 hearing date to take comment on what many observers feel could be a historic shift in federal drug policy on marijuana, possibly opening the door for legalization in Indiana.
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Indiana Southern District U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal Division chief Cindy Cho is committed to the Department of Justice’s mission to do justice through the law — so much so that her desire to become a federal prosecutor dates back as far as her memory serves.
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The National Association of Realtors is revamping its rules about commissions to comply with a settlement reached with the Department of Justice. The settlement requires brokers to disclose commissions on listings published through the Multiple Listings Service.
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The decision could, potentially, upend decades-old legal precedent established in response to Richard M. Nixon’s effort to keep control of records upon his resignation from the Oval Office.
The investigation is looking into whether the National Football League has engaged in anticompetitive practices, amid growing frustration from fans over the league’s increasing shift toward airing games on subscription TV services,
Todd Blanche, who is leading the Justice Department after Pam Bondi’s ouster, defended investigations of the president’s political foes.
The proposed rule would allow the department to investigate complaints against its own attorneys before investigations are handled by individual state bars.
The PRA was passed in 1978 amid a struggle between Congress and President Richard Nixon over his effort to keep control over millions of documents and White House tapes that exposed the Watergate scandal.
Whoever holds the job in the long term will almost certainly be expected to carry out Trump’s retribution campaign with more success, said Jimmy Gurule, a former Justice Department official and law professor at The University of Notre Dame.
Bondi upended the Justice Department’s culture of independence from the White House, oversaw large-scale firings of career employees and moved aggressively to investigate the Republican president’s perceived enemies.
Friday’s filing was the second time the Trump administration sued Harvard this year.
As part of the merger, Nexstar is expected to divest six TV stations, including one in Indianapolis.
On Wednesday, Jerome Powell said he would remain as chair of the Fed’s interest rate-setting committee after his term ends if no successor has been confirmed.
The committee’s Republican chairman, Rep. James Comer, accused Democrats of political grandstanding.
The Justice Department reached a settlement with Live Nation last week to open up some ticketing and promotional markets to more competition, but 30 states are still pursuing the case.
This is the first time the federal government is known to have used the designation — designed to prevent foreign adversaries from harming national security systems — against a U.S. company.
The case accused Live Nation of using threats, retaliation and other tactics to “suffocate the competition” by controlling virtually every aspect of the industry, from concert promotion to ticketing.
The Justice Department had on Monday moved to abandon its effort to revive sanctions against the law firms, which had hired Trump’s perceived foes or took on cases he disliked.
The trial stems from a lawsuit filed in 2024 that alleged the companies have dominated the industry by suffocating competitors and controlling everything from concert promotion to ticketing.
Agents seized a phone, two laptops, a recorder, a portable hard drive and a smart watch when they searched the reporter’s home on Jan. 14, part of an investigation into whether a Pentagon contractor illegally leaked classified information.
The motion asks the judge to “order reasonable limits on the government’s use of the seized data” and to prohibit the government from using the data for purposes other than the criminal investigation cited in the search warrant affidavit.
Congress is discussing potential new rules for ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection after officers shot and killed two Minneapolis protesters in January.
The subpoenas, which seek records, were sent to the offices of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and officials in Ramsey and Hennepin counties,