Former US President Donald Trump calls on Republican lawmakers in Congress to slash the budget for both the Justice Department and the FBI.

The US Justice Department will review the Memphis Police Department after the brutal death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man killed by police last month, according to city officials.

The US Justice Department has named Jack Smith, a war crimes prosecutor, to serve as special counsel to oversee the department’s investigations .

A bipartisan US Senate investigation has found that the Justice Department has been severely under-counting the number of state prison and arrest-related deaths in the United States.

Former US President Trump had more than 300 classified documents in his possession after leaving office, which were retrieved by the National Archives in January.

The US Department of Justice has sued Peter Navarro, an adviser to former President Trump, seeking emails from his time in the White House.

A US judge on Wednesday ordered the Justice Department to provide former President Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon access to certain sensitive internal legal opinions or other related records that could potentially help bolster his defense against criminal contempt of Congress charges.