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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with University of Michigan Law School Professor Barbara McQuade about Trump's 2024 campaign announcement and how it could impact ongoing investigations surrounding him.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is facing scrutiny over his biography, which states he was offered a scholarship to the U.S. military academy at West Point. It turns out, Carson never applied to the academy, his campaign said Friday.

The Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia has the potential to upend the 2016 election. NPR takes a look at what signal the president might send with his choice to succeed Scalia, and how the public might react to Republican leaders vowing to not to confirm anyone.

Donald Trump makes his first post-presidency speech at the annual CPAC conference.

When FBI agents arrive at the scene of a shooting or a terrorist attack, a representative from the FBI's Office for Victim Assistance is often there to help people who are affected. The FBI offers practical help as well as referrals for counseling.

President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have a lot in common, so it's no surprise they socialize outside the office. But the distance between the White House and the Justice Department has long been a touchy subject, and the Obama-Holder relationship is beginning to attract criticism.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says two suspected Iraqi terrorists, captured in his home state of Kentucky, should be sent to Guantanamo Bay for trial. Attorney General Eric Holder says that's not a decision politicians should make. Holder lost an earlier political battle over trying Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York.

Lanny A. Breuer, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's criminal division, said he found out in April 2010 that ATF agents had let more than 400 guns connected to suspicious buyers cross the Southwest border during the Bush years. But, he said, he didn't tell senior leadership at the department.

Republican lawmakers want Mexico to accept U.S. military aid to cripple drug cartels making and smuggling deadly fentanyl. López Obrador mocked the idea as a threat to his country's sovereignty.

Nearly four months after declaring his third run for the White House, former President Donald Trump visited Iowa — the first in the nation caucus for Republicans.