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The new head of the Border Patrol is in the Valley Friday. Mike Banks is in Edinburg where he will be swearing in 300 National Guard and Texas Department of ...

"We need to go on the offense. We don't need to be cowering in our holes," Congressman Keith Self told Newsweek.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration launched a sweeping round of cuts at the Justice Department on Friday ... move to remake the U.S. criminal justice system since he ...

Thank you to Dave Lieber for uncovering and providing this story regarding the shady operations “in a grey area of state law” related to the Texas ... swift justice, especially if criminal ...

A top Justice Department official ordered the firing Friday of ... s ability to protect the country from national security and criminal threats and will ultimately risk setting up the Bureau ...

A small tweak to an email encouraging federal employees to take a buyout indicates the Justice Department wouldn’t vouch for the legality of the program. The Trump administration is battling ...

A longtime immigration enforcement official has been tapped to run the ... For the past two decades, an office within the Department of Health and Human Services has supervised children who ...

But Abbott said in his letter that Texas agencies should follow ... A seventh federal prosecutor resigned Friday after the Department of Justice ordered criminal corruption charges against New ...

Adams is the first sitting New York City mayor to be indicted. Mayor Eric Adams's criminal defense attorney was at Justice Department headquarters in Washington on Friday to discuss the future of ...