Senior Justice Department officials and federal prosecutors in Manhattan have held talks about dropping the corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, the New York Times reported on Wednesday,

The Justice Department has had discussions about the future of the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

The Department of Justice has moved to dismiss the case against former U.S. Congressman Jeff Fortenberry from Nebraska.

Civil rights groups and legal scholars said the new measure would violate constitutional free speech rights and would likely draw legal challenges.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned on Monday after the Trump administration tried to re-assign him to a new role working on immigration issues, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

China is imposing its justice system on American soil using a web of U.S.-based nonprofits linked to a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence agency, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.

Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira had been charged with conspiring with the president to obstruct an FBI investigation.

The Justice Department under President Donald Trump moved to drop an appeal by former special counsel Jack Smith in his classified documents case, tying up one of the final loose ends in the case.

Two key Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday demanded more information after the Trump administration abruptly fired career prosecutors who investigated President Donald Trump, and reassigned others from their positions to a newly created "sanctuary city" working group.

The abrupt action targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team is the latest sign of upheaval inside the Justice Department. It reflects the administration’s determination to purge the government of workers it perceives as disloyal to the president.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order promising “immediate action” from federal law enforcement against noncitizen college students and others in the United States who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations during Israel’s war in Gaza.