Author: Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, police departments are confronted with a difficult question: How to keep a functioning police force when officers get sick?

The Trump administration argued that without the policy, thousands of asylum seekers who were sent to Mexico “will rush immediately” to the U.S.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson is hearing Stone’s motion for a new trial, which was filed after Trump accused a juror of bias.

The move could delay Roger Stone’s sentencing, scheduled for next week. His case has been at the center of a controversy this week.

Like Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson before him, President Trump does not have the same constitutional protection afforded to criminal defendants.

Prosecutors argued for a lenient sentence for Rick Gates, a key government witness during the Russia investigation.

Jurors hear closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of Roger Stone, a longtime GOP operative and Trump ally accused of lying to Congress.

The Justice Department inspector general found that the DEA let companies manufacture more prescription painkillers even as overdose deaths jumped.

Attorney General William Barr ordered officials to schedule executions for five inmates, ending the federal government’s hiatus on capital punishment.

A federal judge ordered former Trump adviser Roger Stone to stop using social media after saying he had violated a gag order in his criminal case.