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The FBI reports that murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults were up in the first half of last year over the same time in 2014. The Justice Department calls overall rates historically low.

The FBI Agents Association honored two men who recovered a young boy seized and held in an underground bunker in Alabama in 2013. They died a year later in a training accident.

A bipartisan bill to overhaul the criminal-justice system has hit a snag. Its higher bar to prove guilt is something the Department of Justice says could benefit top-level executives.

The agency's director, James Comey, said Thursday that he is closely monitoring the investigation. He also made unusually passionate remarks about violent crime in America.

A federal judge wants the Department of Justice to formally explain why it hasn't been able to meet a deadline set for releasing all of Hillary Clinton's emails from her time as secretary of state.

Life tenure was meant to insulate justices from politics, but the clash building between President Obama and the GOP-controlled Senate after Antonin Scalia's death shows how that hasn't panned out.

There's a long history of government officials getting FBI scrutiny for mishandling classified information. But prosecutors usually require bad intent or ulterior motives to bring a criminal case.

Stuart Delery, acting associate attorney general, is resigning to explore options in the private sector. He leaves as the highest-ranking openly gay leader in the department's history.

Congressional Republicans are pledging to confirm no one President Obama appoints to the Supreme Court.

NPR's Carrie Johnson and Ron Elving talk to host Michel Martin about the political battle developing over the replacement of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia.