A crane lifting a piece of the wreckage of an American Airlines jet from the Potomac River in February.

A naturalization ceremony in Boston in August. The Trump administration has been closing loopholes in the immigration system and throwing up roadblocks for people seeking to enter and stay in the country.

Jack Smith, the former special counsel, during a break in a closed-door deposition with the House Judiciary Committee.

A new corruption case has rattled the State Capitol community of lobbyists, government aides and elected officials.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon may again end up as a key player in a Trump-centric case.

President Trump has been trying to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board for months.

Nicolás Maduro carries the flag of Chavismo, the brand of socialism promulgated by his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.

President Trump has sought to control the Justice Department to pursue his political enemies.

The federal judges for the Southern District of New York are to vote on whether to name Jay Clayton, interim U.S. attorney for the district, to remain in the post.

Justice Department veterans see an overarching pattern in the dismissals — a quickening effort by the Trump administration to ignore and eventually demolish longstanding civil service legal precedents meant to keep politics out of law enforcement work.

Emil Bove III, a top Justice Department official, at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday for an appeals court judgeship.

The U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md. The lawsuit filed by the Trump administration against the district’s chief judge and 14 other federal judges who serve on the bench in Maryland makes clear how strained the relationship between the executive and judicial branches has become.

Justice Neil Gorsuch with former Justice Stephen Breyer at a memorial event for Antonin Scalia last year during a Federalist Society convention in Washington.

Ed Martin has used his authority to upend the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, as well as dismantle and delegitimize the Jan. 6 inquiry.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during an arrest operation in Florida in 2023. Currently, immigration agents without a warrant can do little more than knock on a door and ask to come in.

Mayor Eric Adams appeared in federal court as a judge weighed the Justice Department’s request to drop corruption charges against him.

A rebel fighter with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the most powerful militia group in Syria, at a presidential palace in the capital, Damascus.