The FBI has provided the Justice Department with names of employees who worked on January 6-related cases after a new demand from the acting deputy attorney general, capping a weeklong back-and-forth between bureau leadership – who had sought to protect agent and staff identities – and the department.

President Donald Trump's new administration has been racing to remake the Justice Department tasked with U.S. law enforcement. Leading the overhaul is Emil Bove, a lawyer who defended Trump in a criminal case stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.

Federal officials are asking a judge to bar the Illinois, Chicago, Cook County and the Cook County Sheriff from using local laws that protect migrants to hamper law enforcement.

A former federal prosecutor has said that FBI agents' lawsuits against Trump are the beginning of a wave of legal action by federal employees. Newsweek sought email comment from the Justice Department on Thursday.

Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed Thursday that the Justice Department will get back to its “core function” of prosecuting violent criminals — declaring that under President Trump “weaponization ends.” “It’s the end of the weaponization of government and getting back to prosecuting violent crime and giving our great men and women the tools that they need in law enforcement,

On Wednesday evening, newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent staff in several divisions of the Department of Justice more than a dozen memos within a 15-minute span, laying out the agency’s new policies on issues ranging from reviving the death penalty,