House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Congress will need to pass a law to allow for the indictment of a sitting president during an interview on Friday. 
A Chinese national pleaded guilty to running an illegal "birth tourism" scheme in California, where she charged clients thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States in order to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children. 
Federal prosecutors rejected an appeal Thursday from former FBI deputy director and current CNN contributor Andrew McCabe asking that they set aside their recommendation that he be brought up on criminal charges. 
The Department of Justice indicted 35 drug traffickers who collectively participated in a conspiracy to sell tons of highly potent drugs in eastern Virginia. 
The Department of Justice has broken up a drug ring allegedly responsible for conspiring to distribute 23 million opioid pills. 
The Justice Department's inspector general found that former FBI Director James Comey violated FBI policy by retaining and then leaking a series of memos concerning his interactions with President Donald Trump during the early days of his administration. 
The Trump administration is pushing for legislation that would accelerate certain federal death penalty cases. 
In the wake of multiple mass shootings over the weekend, President Donald Trump called Monday morning for legislation to execute offenders convicted of hate crimes. 
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton blasted presidential hopefuls Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg for their criticisms of the death penalty. He described one of the inmate's heinous crimes and pointed out the inmate's conviction occurred under the Clinton Department of Justice. 
The federal government will resume executions of federal death row inmates, the Department of Justice announced Thursday, ending a 16-year spell in which not a single federal execution has occurred. 