The state of Oklahoma is violating federal law by unnecessarily committing people with mental illness and drug abuse disorders to psychiatric hospitals, the U.S. Justice Department concluded in a ...

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Aaron Reitz to serve as head of the Justice Department Office of Legal Policy and Chad Mizelle as chief of staff at the Justice Department, according to two ...

President Biden will on Saturday award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ), together ... Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division: “The Justice Department is ...

The former head of a notorious Syrian prison was charged Thursday in the United States with torturing opponents of the now-collapsed government of Bashar al-Assad, the Justice Department said.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen on Monday announced bureau chief Lee Johnson will take over the top position of the Department of Justice's investigative office. Johnson is a 31-year ...

Syrians have flocked to prisons since the fall Bashar al-Assad's regime, searching for loved ones who disappeared during decades of repression — OMAR HAJ KADOUR The former head ... Justice Department ...