A new federal law aimed at stopping AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images is beginning to yield new criminal charges.

Welcome to the era of performative lawsuits.

The family of former U.S. Tennis Association President says the organization is giving them a raw deal.

Despite a media landscape that would imply otherwise, prosecuting murders in the federal court system is relatively rare. We explain why.

New legislation offers the possibility of free and searchable access to court records. But there are other systemic issues within the judiciary that still hinder transparency

It’s difficult to access immigration court records under an increasingly antiquated federal rule. An army of volunteers is working to change that.

There has been a quiet rise in the number of counterintelligence criminal prosecutions. More may be on the horizon.

A recent court ruling throws into question decades of legal precedent on terrorism cases. We examine the debate and consequences.

Thwarted Terror Attacks. Attempted School Shootings. Suicides. Are A.I. companies complicit in a string of violence that began online?

Between the legal deserts and rising costs of lawyers, more and more Americans are attempting to represent themselves in court. In some cases, 92% of them lose. We look at the uphill battle facing those who take own their own cases.

Authorities say more than a dozen individuals in the United States and Europe were coordinating, funding, and directing an ongoing civil war in Cameroon.

With hundreds of members, a white supremacist prison gang operated a sophisticated and sometimes not-so-sophisticated criminal syndicate.

As the Trump Administration dramatically ramps up efforts to revoke the citizenship of convicted felons, we look at the century-long evolution of the law enforcement and immigration tactic.

Hundreds of U.S. companies have been tricked into hiring North Korean remote workers for sensitive corporate and government jobs.

A rising number of mass shootings can be traced back to a young and violent online community obsessed with death.

While the war’s reverberations are largely felt outside the borders of the United States, the ramifications may soon begin here.

For more than a century, the Lacey Act has protected snapping turtles, trees, lizards, and all manners of god’s little creatures. We look at the crime lab, criminal convictions, and civil penalties safeguarding wildlife.

As artificial intelligence makes it easier to create explicit images of children, prosecutors and judges grapple with how to respond.

A federal investigation in Nebraska uncovered a nationwide drug operation that earned hundreds of millions of dollars. But it was there a larger untold story about the L.A. music scene, fine art, and high society.

For more than a decade, Rachel Weiner, until quite recently a Washington Post journalist, chronicled the news involving the D.C. metropolitan area, which included stints at the Eastern District of Virginia. This week, she gives us an insiders-look on what it means to cover the fastest federal court in America.

On Superbowl Sunday, we look back at the intersection of crime and sports in the justice system.

Among the 17 counties in Georgia that don’t have a single local news source, 12 of them are in the Middle District of Georgia’s jurisdiction. This week, we sought to examine the dockets dying in the darkness.

While the former Venezuelan President faces federal charges after being captured by the U.S. military, we looked back at the stories of would-be coups by civilians that went awry and their intersection with the federal courts.

A nihilistic online group is targeting minors. We examined the prosecutions aimed at stopping what the Justice Department calls "one of the most heinous online child exploitation enterprises we have ever encountered" -- the violent and sadistic organization, 764.

Convicted of terrorism in two countries for the same crime, the last member of five young Virginians who disappeared in 2009 to join a terrorist group had his day in court.