U.S. Justice Department
Joe Biden sues U.S. Justice Department over planned release of conversations with biographer
Former U.S. president Joe Biden, shown on March 6, is suing the U.S. Justice Department to stop the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations he had with his biographer. (Jim Vondruska/Reuters) Former U.S. president Joe Biden sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, seeking to bar the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with his biographer in 2016 and 2017. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington D.C., comes ahead of the department’s planned June 15 release of the materials to theRead more
U.S. Justice Department renews bid to have Jeffrey Epstein grand jury files unsealed
A demonstrator in Washington holds a sign demanding the release of the Epstein files in September. The U.S. Justice Department is again seeking to have the grand jury files in the Epstein case unsealed. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The U.S. Justice Department renewed its request Monday to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking cases, arguing they should be made public under a new law requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his longtime confidante. U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton cited the EpsteinRead more
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to plead guilty to espionage charge as part of deal with U.S.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centred on the publication of a trove of classified documents, according to court papers filed late Monday. In a statement Monday, WikiLeaks said Assange had left a British prison on Monday and flown out of the United Kingdom from London Stansted Airport. “After more than five years in a [two-by-three-metre] cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wifeRead more