If the Pentagon were ever to get courts’ leeway to withdraw a pledge not to seek the death penalty, the United States says, it should be for the alleged mastermind.

The federal government agreed not to seek the death penalty in a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks — but tried to back out just days later.

Judges heard nearly four hours of arguments over whether former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had the authority to unwind plea deals reached with three men accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will hold migrants at the notorious Guantanamo military detention facility in Cuba as part of

President Trump said his administration will begin preparations on building a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.

Sen. John McCain said Steven Bradbury, whose legal memos authorized waterboarding, wrote "permission slips for torture."

Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings in the classified documents investigation public while the DOJ appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.

The Justice Department has abandoned all criminal proceedings against President Donald Trump’s two co-defendants in the classified documents case against him in Florida, foreclosing the chance the case against them could ever be revived.

The DOJ asked a federal court to dismiss its case against two men indicted for allegedly helping Trump conceal classified documents. Prosecutors dropped Trump from the case after his election win.

Walt Nauta, an aide to President Trump, and Carlos de Oliveira, former property manager at Mar-a-Lago, were charged alongside the president in 2023. They all pleaded not guilty.

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.

U.S. Attorney Hayden O'Byrne asked the appeals court to dismiss the classified documents case in a way it could not be appealed again.