Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."

The acting attorney general said these officials could not be trusted to "faithfully implement the president's agenda."

Walt Nauta, an aide to President Trump, and Carlos de Oliveira, former property manager at Mar-a-Lago, were charged alongside the president in 2023. They all pleaded not guilty.

President Donald Trump had been charged with crimes by special counsel Jack Smith in cases related to the 2020 election and classified documents.

The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?

Mr. Trump has declared on Truth Social that Mr. Smith “should be prosecuted for election interference & prosecutorial misconduct.” The president has also called him a “career criminal.” He also reposted the radio host Mark Levin’s view that “Jack Smith must go to prison.”

Donald Trump is no longer expected to impose a 25 percent tariff on Colombian imports after President Gustavo Petro accepted flights of deported migrants from the U.S.

It’s a state of affairs in which Attorney General Merrick Garland playing it by the book will effectively aid Trump’s bid to keep special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the documents case ...

Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant.

The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, according to a memo sent to government agencies on Monday, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of programs and sowing confusion and alarm among the array of groups that depend on them.

Special Counsel Jack Smith, who brought two criminal cases against Trump, resigned before the Republican could fulfil his campaign pledge to fire him, but more than a dozen members of his team were sacked on Monday.

Abrupt firings, senior officials demoted, and career employees left reeling -- US President Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to a Justice Department he accuses of unjustly prosecuting him. Across the Justice Department a number of high-ranking officials have been demoted or reassigned in moves by the new administration that have unsettled career employees.