Author: Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY

It’s not immediately clear what special counsel Jack Smith is seeking from Mike Pence, but the demand likely marks a major escalation in the inquiry.

Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray urged that any planned protests be peaceful.

A Georgia judge did not make an immediate decision on whether to release a grand jury’s findings in a probe into interference in the 2020 election.

Charles McGonigal once headed the FBI’s New York Counterintelligence Division and was involved in investigations involving oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

A hearing Tuesday could result in the full release of a grand jury report, including any recommendations related to possible prosecution of Trump.

Short staffing persists at a federal prison in West Virginia, even as a startling number of makeshift weapons were recovered this month.

Abbott Laboratories confirms inquiry, ‘cooperating fully.’

The founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato was arrested early Wednesday in Miami in connection with a vast money laundering operation.

The review move towards an inflection point with many questions unanswered. President Joe Biden has maintained the matter was handled appropriately.

Richard Sauber, a special counsel to the president, said the documents were immediately turned over the National Archives.