Before she was sworn in Monday as an interim U.S. attorney, Halligan, a 36-year-old former White House aide, had no prosecutorial experience.

The federal charges against Comey marked the culmination of seven days’ worth of chaos inside the Justice Department and the US attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia — which has had t...

After the indictment of former F-B-I Director James Comey, there are new signs that President Trump is following through on his promise to go after more of his perceived enemies.

But Trump's comments on the indictment, and his public pressure on the justice department to secure it, may have created a weakness in the case and made it harder for prosecutors to win a conviction ...