Acting Attorney General Sally Yates instructed Justice Department attorneys to not legally defend President Donald Trump's executive order on refugees and immigration.
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he signing of the regulatory order followed a meeting with small-business owners in the White House on Monday morning.
The Trump administration is standing firm over its ban on immigration from seven countries despite court rulings and mass protests against it.
Rights groups have filed a lawsuit in a New York court to demand the release of refugees in transit who have been detained at John F Kennedy airport.
Trump and May are scheduled to conduct a joint news conference after their Oval Office meeting.
The former South Carolina governor made her first remarks at UN headquarters before presenting her diplomatic credentials to Guterres.
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has declared the “whole world is angry right now”, as he outlined his plans to screen people coming in to the US, fight terrorism and build a wall on the US border with Mexico.
One of the first condemnations of the presidential orders came from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which denounced them as “a betrayal of our most important political, moral, and constitutional values.”
The US army private serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified documents has thanked President Barack Obama for shortening her sentence.
The widow of the man who killed 49 people at a Florida gay nightclub knew of the attack before it happened, a court in California has heard.
President Barack Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence for leaking documents to Wikileaks in 2010.
The credibility of the file has been questioned by various top-tier officials.
Rep. John Lewis said he would not invite President-elect Donald Trump on a visit to Selma, Alabama with him in an interview released after Trump attacked the congressman on Twitter. Lewis has frequently visited the city with politicians from both sides of the aisle over the years
The U.S. Justice Department has issued a scathing report on civil rights abuses by Chicago's police department over the years.
A US government watchdog has launched an investigation into actions taken by the FBI during the election campaign.
The Justice Department inspector general says he will investigate the actions of the Justice Department and FBI in the months leading up to the 2016 election, including whether department policies were followed by FBI Director James Comey
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the new attorney general has denied sympathising with the Ku Klux Klan, in a tough Senate confirmation hearing.
A white supremacist has been sentenced to death for the racially motivated killings of nine black people at a South Carolina church in 2015.
The first of the Trump administration’s most controversial nominees to appear for Senate confirmation