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Threats against election officials rose following Trump’s defeat and the January 6 Capitol attack.

America’s monster: Capitol riot hearings reveal Trump’s malevolence

In his dystopian inaugural speech, President Donald Trump promised to end ‘American carnage’. Instead, he delivered it. Now he needs to be held accountable.

  • Maureen Dowd
Then attorney-general William Barr has used the power of the Justice Department to support Donald Trump.

AG misled Congress on Trump’s action during Mueller probe: judge

She also criticised William Barr for spinning the investigation’s findings before the report was released, allowing Trump to claim he had been exonerated.

  • Michael S. Schmidt
Attorney-General William Barr speaks during a news conference.

Barr's final act is rejecting Trump's last-grasp election scheme

The attorney-general also backed official warnings that Russia is behind the enormous US government hack, as a Senator reveals Treasury emails were compromised.

  • Michael Balsamo
The Lockerbie disaster ... 259 people died when a Pan Am jumbo jet was blown up in 1988.

US charges bombmaker in 1988 Pan Am explosion

The US Justice Department has announced new charges against a Libyan bombmaker in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

  • Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo
US Attorney-General William Barr was once described as "the President's fixer".

Donald Trump says Attorney-General Barr resigns

Barr, in a letter to Trump posted by the Republican president on Twitter, said he would leave his post on December 23. 

  • Michael Balsamo
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US Attorney-General William Barr.

William Barr said to be mulling an exit before Trump’s term ends

It was not clear whether the A-G’s decisions were influenced by Trump’s refusal to concede or his fury over Barr’s admission about there was no voting fraud.

  • Katie Benner, Michael S. Schmidt and Peter Baker
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” Barr told the AP.

US AG Barr: No evidence of fraud that would change election outcome

Barr's comments come despite President Donald Trump's repeated claims that the election was stolen, and his refusal to concede his loss to President-elect Joe Biden.

  • Michael Balsamo
Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on December 8, was convicted of fatally strangling a pregnant woman.

US to carry out first federal execution of a woman in seven decades

The last woman to be executed by the US government was put to death in a gas chamber in 1953.

  • Brendan O'Brien
Anger at his loyalists: US President Donald Trump.

Trump presses loyal Pompeo, Barr for dirt to use against Biden

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo vowed that his team is doing "everything we can" to release additional emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure at the department.

  • Chris Strohm, Jordan Fabian and Nick Wadhams

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