Special counsel says Trump's election prohibited case from going to trial. Here is the news to know on Tuesday.

IF THESE WERE “NORMAL” TIMES, Pam Bondi almost certainly would not be confirmed as attorney general. But these are far from normal times, and with her leading the Department of Justice under a re-elected Donald Trump, the times are likely to get a whole lot less normal.

Pam Bondi sought to allay the concerns of Democrats who said they feared Trump and his allies would use the Justice Department to target their political enemies.

Just after noon next Monday, Donald Trump will take an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, despite having, four years before, “engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election in order to retain power.”

Pam Bondi cast herself as an independent prosecutor who would keep politics out of the Justice Department if confirmed as President Trump’s attorney general. Senators on both sides predicted she would be confirmed.

Former special counsel Jack Smith used his final report to counter years of claims from President-elect Trump while peeling back the curtain on how he approached the unprecedented case. The

Prosecutors believed they had enough evidence to convict Donald Trump for efforts to overturn the 2020 result before they had to drop the case, Jack Smith said.

The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar in a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon said prosecutors should not be allowed to share the report outside the Justice Department, adding that it contained information that had not been made public.

The DOJ plans on releasing the portion of Smith's report that deals with Trump's alleged efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has ...

President Joe Biden bid goodbye to Americans in a farewell address in which he also warned of serious dangers that threaten democracy.