Roughly 3,100 federal prison inmates will soon be released, the Department of Justice announced Friday, as part of implementation of federal criminal justice reform enacted into law last year. 
The Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court late Monday night for an emergency order to allow the Trump administration to begin constructing two sections of border wall in Arizona and Texas. 
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) questioned members of the intelligence community on the espionage charges swirling around Chinese companies Hauwei and ZTE, during a Tuesday Intelligence Committee open hearing on worldwide threats. 
President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Wednesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned and that Sessions' chief of staff Matthew Whitaker will be acting attorney general. 
The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it had prosecuted more violent and firearm crimes in FY 2018 than in any prior year on record. 
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Friday denied a New York Times report claiming that he suggested last year that he secretly record Donald Trump in the White House and discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that there are more immigration court judges than ever, a number he intends to see even further increased by the end of the year. 
President Donald Trump sent multiple tweets Friday morning, attacking Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not investigating corruption on the "other side." 
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday fired back at President Donald Trump following an interview in which the president said Sessions "never took control of the Justice Department."
A spending amendment that would overturn Attorney General Jeff Sessions's narrowing of asylum eligibility got the support of both Democrats and Republicans Wednesday. 