An expert on international law weighs in on the legality and global implications of the Trump administration’s drug boat ...

It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate Republicans to end the custom of the filibuster, which has bedeviled majority parties for years.

The federal gambling indictments indicate the New York mafia may be more powerful than experts previously believed.

Since Watergate, Americans have expected presidents to steer clear of criminal prosecutions. But under Donald Trump, presidential interference is happening in broad daylight — enabled by his ...

Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties have dominated Ohio's capital cases and death sentences over the past 40 years. Opponents argue the death penalty isn't applied evenly in Ohio, but prosecutors say ...

Prosecutor Maggie Cleary has been removed from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, a source confirmed to CBS News, the latest sign of upheaval in a high-profile Justice ...

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday declared immigration raids a local state of emergency, saying the county needs to do more to support immigrant families. The board passed the ...

Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll warned Dover officials last month that their bid to replace the police chief with a public safety director might violate state law. The council went ahead, in ...

The district attorney is searching for witnesses and plans to ask the Supreme Court to consider the Etan Patz case. A defense lawyer for the man accused in the killing says they’re dawdling. By Colin ...

Maggie Cleary — the senior Justice Department prosecutor who briefly led the powerful US attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia last month before Trump ally Lindsey Halligan took over — ...

The 33-year-old suspect in the Kroger Marketplace stabbing in Southgate was acting in self-defense while being punched at work, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. The suspect from ...

EVANSVILLE — Prosecutors dismissed a domestic battery charge against Evansville weatherman and television reporter Joe Bird due to a lack of evidence. City police arrested Bird on Sept. 27 after a ...