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Prosecutors in a court filing Friday asked the federal judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s classified document case to push the trial date back from mid-August to December in Fort Pierce. Just earlier this week, the start date for the two-week trial was scheduled for Aug. 14. The government is now asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to begin with jury selection on Dec. ...

The National Security Cyber Section will work to "increase the scale and speed of disruption campaigns and prosecutions” against cybercriminals, an offi...

A member of the U.S. Air National Guard (USANG) stationed in Massachusetts was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly retaining and transmitting classified national defense information on a social media platform beginning in or around 2022 and continuing until his arrest in April.

Trump lawyer Jim Trusty alleged that federal prosecutors engaged in extortion during conversations with a lawyer for Trump aide Walt Nauta, a potentially key witness.

A former senior FBI official testified to the House Judiciary Committee about the FBI's unusual methods for executing its raid on former President Trump.

Man Convicted Of Torture And Exporting Weapons Parts And Related Services To Iraq A federal jury convicted a Pennsylvania man on May 19 for numerous crimes, including the torture of an Estonian citizen in 2015 in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, in connection with the operation of an illegal weapons manufacturing plant in Kurdistan. According

Ross Roggio could be sentenced to life in prison for his activities in Iraq.

Roggio is the second defendant to be convicted of torture since the federal torture statute went into effect in 1994. Roggio is the second defendant to be convicted of torture since the federal torture statute went into effect in 1994.

Xiangjiang Qiao, linked to a sanctioned Chinese company involved in weapons proliferation, allegedly conspired to provide isostatic graphite, per DOJ.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) clarified its policy regarding voluntary self-disclosures and enforcement actions on April 18, 2023....