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Immigrant advocates are denouncing the proposal, arguing that collecting genetic information of border crossers could have implications for family members residing in the U.S.

The federal court decision paves the way for the nation's first supervised injection site to open in Philadelphia. The Justice Department argued that it amounted to "in-your-face illegal activity."

A seven-year delay in the investigation of a controversial shooting by a Border Patrol agent of a Mexican national is emblematic of a larger problem when federal officials investigate these cases.

Recent remarks raise concerns the Trump administration won't follow more than 200 years of precedent in dividing up seats in Congress based on population counts that include unauthorized immigrants.

John Gore, the main Justice Department official behind the Trump administration's failed push for a citizenship question, is set to leave the department, a person familiar with the matter tells NPR.

A deal years in the making is getting federal regulatory approval to move forward. The $26 billion merger is subject to court approval, and state attorneys general are seeking to block the deal.

"The Justice Department upholds the rule of law — and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system," Attorney General William Barr said.

Challengers of the Trump administration's push for a census citizenship question are asking a federal judge in New York to impose penalties for allegedly false or misleading statements by officials.

The deal to resolve all U.S. federal investigations and claims is the biggest drug industry settlement so far stemming from the nation's deadly opioid epidemic.

Two federal judges have rejected the Trump administration's requests to completely change the legal teams defending its efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

The Justice Department did not provide an explanation for why it's switching out lawyers representing the Trump administration in the ongoing legal battle over a potential census citizenship question.

While the Justice Department continues exploring possible ways to add a question about citizenship to the census forms, a federal judge in Maryland is moving ahead with reopening two cases against it.