8 November 2018 Congressional Democrats, concerned about protecting Mueller, called on Matthew Whitaker to recuse himself from overseeing the investigation in its final but potentially explosive stages.
7 November 2018 Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out as the country's chief law enforcement officer after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump.
27 June 2018 Both the White House and Attorney General have used (and misused) a rudimentary and unverifiable statistic in order to downplay their roles in the family separation crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
26 June 2018 Health and Human Services officials said they will reunite children with detained parents if Congress lifts a 20-day limit on child detention.
20 June 2018 Hundreds of the Attorney General's fellow church-members signed a letter claiming his "zero-tolerance" immigration policy had harmed "thousands of vulnerable humans."
19 June 2018 Attorneys, politicians, and journalists all describe a bureaucracy unprepared for the challenges of reuniting large numbers of children forcibly separated from their parents.
18 June 2018 There is no federal law mandating children and parents be separated at the border; a policy resulting in that outcome was enacted in May 2018.
15 June 2018 Multiple news outlets reported that the Department of Health and Human Services is planning tent cities to accommodate a recent influx of immigrant children — but the practice is not new.
14 June 2018 A quote widely attributed to the Attorney General appeared to stem from a viral video shared by Sen. Jeff Merkley's visit to a detention center.
11 June 2018 Immigration lawyers have already vowed to take legal action against Sessions's ruling, which would deny asylum to almost all victims of gang violence and domestic abuse.
8 June 2018 The Department of Health and Human Services announced that 10,773 unaccompanied immigrant children were indeed in detention facilities as of May 2018.
12 February 2018 His comments were reportedly a reference to the legal tradition of common law that the American sheriff's system shares with England.
22 April 2019 The star, who has been battling cancer since 2017, was hospitalized in early April 2019.
23 April 2019 The Republican state senator attracted nationwide coverage and widespread criticism in April 2019, but what did she actually say?
15 April 2019 Is a reverse death hoax even more callous than a death hoax?
19 April 2019 According to the Mueller Report, U.S. President Donald Trump was less than enthused about the appointment of the special counsel.
22 April 2019 Curiously, the phrase "In God We Trust" wasn't even on paper currency in the United States 150 years ago.