U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth temporarily blocked the layoffs of more than 500 Voice of America employees, delivering a setback to the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the United States’ international broadcasting agency.

Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company, and former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani have settled the $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against the former New York mayor over spreading falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election, according to a court filing Friday.

Before she was sworn in Monday as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, a 36-year-old former White House aide and Florida insurance lawyer, had no prosecutorial experience. Less than four days into her new role, she brought charges against former FBI director James B. Comey.

President Donald Trump instructed top prosecutors in a memo on Thursday to pursue the death penalty “to the maximum degree practicable” in D.C., marking his latest move to exert control over law enforcement in the city.

E-commerce giant Amazon agreed Thursday to pay $1.5 billion in refunds to customers of its Prime subscription as part of a larger settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations it tricked people into signing up for the free shipping service and made it difficult to cancel.

A federal court on Wednesday temporarily reinstated a University of South Dakota professor who was put on administrative leave after making negative comments on social media about Charlie Kirk on the same day that the conservative activist was shot.

President Donald Trump’s campaign to eliminate an arcane but long-standing Senate tradition may gain steam as he presses to install one of his White House advisers as U.S. attorney following the ouster of her predecessor.

Amazon.com Inc. and three executives are facing a federal regulator’s allegations in a Seattle court that they duped customers into signing up for the company’s Prime subscription service and then made it too hard to cancel.

President Donald Trump has spent months chipping away at the barriers that have long protected the Justice Department from political interference. But now federal prosecutors and legal observers are bracing for what comes next as he escalates that effort rapidly.

President Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against the New York Times and four of its reporters, accusing the newspaper of libeling him in several articles in the lead-up to last year’s presidential election.