NEW YORK (AP) — A onetime West Point cadet drugged his then-girlfriend in her barracks room, administered abortion pills to her against her wi…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday complicated President Donald Trump’s efforts to plow forward on construction of a memorial arch, setting m…

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Harvard University over its alleged failure to provide admissions records that the Justice Department demanded to ensure the Ivy League school stopped using affirmative action in admissions. The Justice Department said Harvard thwarted its efforts to investigate potential discrimination. The department accused Harvard of refusing to comply with a federal investigation and asked a judge to order the university to turn over the records. But U.S. District Judge Myong Joun concluded the department didn't take the necessary procedural steps to get the data before filing the lawsuit.

CHICAGO (AP) — The former head of the FBI's Chicago field office says he lost his job after being wrongly blamed for prosecutions that fell ap…

A federal judge has dismissed President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed the suit with prejudice. He ruled that the president did not prove the defendants made defamatory statements with actual malice. The ruling said the lawsuit was “grasping at straws” as it attempted to “manufacture” flaws in the Journal’s investigative reporting. When a case is thrown out “with prejudice,” it cannot be refiled again and the dismissal is permanent and incontrovertible.

The legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s proposed memorial arch are mounting. The District of Columbia and Virginia sued in federal court Saturday as the administration says construction could begin as early as next week. There are now three lawsuits calling for a halt to potential work on a monument that would rise 250 feet on a patch of grass off the bridge that spans the Potomac River, connecting the city with Arlington National Cemetery. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is already considering issuing an order to halt the project until the original lawsuit is resolved. She held a hearing Friday but didn't immediately act. Trump said Saturday night that the arch “is very important militarily for Washington D.C. and our country."

Alaska’s Republican-run state government is urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed at President Donald Trump’s direction to stop the certification of a possible Democratic win in that state’s pivotal U.S. Senate race. The scathing filing from the state’s attorney general’s office calls the government's arguments "meritless." It comes as a federal judge set a Saturday deadline for arguments over whether she should dismiss the lawsuit without even a hearing. The complaint from the U.S. Department of Justice demands that ballots be set aside to determine whether voters were confused by the presence of a second candidate on the ballot with the same name as Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan.

A federal judge says she'll open a “formal inquiry” to investigate if attorneys for the Trump administration violated ethics during a legal dispute about a golf-course project. It's one in a pair of plans that are revealing the breadth of the president’s attempts to mold parts of the District of Columbia as he wishes. The two cases, unfolding at the same time in the same federal courthouse, are also showing the underlying executive authority claims that lie beneath them. In turn, it's a glimpse into the uses of presidential power under Donald Trump. The cases involved are an impending shutdown and reconfiguration of a historic public golf course and the construction of a monumental arch.