Glenn Thrush

The settlement likely signifies the end of a yearslong effort by U.S. Olympic gymnasts to seek justice for early failures by the F.B.I. to investigate Lawrence G. Nassar, the team’s doctor.

Republicans claimed the bureau’s memo was evidence of an anti-conservative strain among F.B.I. ranks, but an internal investigation failed to uncover any “malicious intent.”

The deal, which could be announced in coming weeks, would bring an end to one of the last major cases stemming from a horrific sports scandal.

Judge Maryellen Noreika declined to dismiss the charges against the president’s son, saying Mr. Biden’s lawyer failed to show prosecutors had been motivated by animus.

The new rule, which is likely to face legal challenges, is an attempt to regulate a fast-growing shadow market of weapons that has fueled gun violence.

The report, part of an effort by the Biden administration to make public previously undisclosed data, offered a portrait of the country’s growing illegal firearms market.

In trying to avoid even the smallest mistakes, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland might have made one big one: ending up in a race against the clock.

Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online.

The Justice Department, which is investigating the blowout of a panel on an Alaska Airlines flight, is using a recently convened grand jury in Seattle.

In a letter, a lawyer for the president’s son cited a scheduling conflict and denounced the Republican impeachment inquiry as a “carnival side show.”