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The Ohio House and Ohio Senate are holding hearings on several election-related measures in the coming days.

Robert Hur is authorized to probe "possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or other records."

Republicans claim Thomas Perez struck a quid pro quo deal with Minnesota that may have cost the federal treasury as much as $180 million. Perez says he acted ethically.

Advocates for prisoners have long argued that confinement conditions in prisons violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. On Tuesday, they made their case before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, complete with a replica prison cell in the hearing room.

Members of Congress say they'll investigate why the FBI and Justice Department didn't tell them earlier about an investigation involving former CIA Director David Petraeus. But the legal authority for reporting such sensitive information to lawmakers is murky.

Congressional Republicans and conservative talking heads have been on the attack against the Justice Department civil rights division. The rhetoric is part of a decades-old push and pull over the ideology of the government's civil rights strategy.

Rather than faulting Attorney General Eric Holder, the inspector general's report on the botched gun-trafficking operation places some blame on his chief of staff and a deputy.

The former president has been charged with 34 felonies for his role in falsifying business records in order to conceal an illegal conspiracy to undermine an election. He pleaded not guilty.

The White House maintains it had sufficiently briefed Congress on the Internet and phone data monitoring programs leaked last week, but many lawmakers vehemently disagree.

Amy Schneider, “Jeopardy!” champion and transgender woman, opposes a Republican-backed House bill that would prohibit doctors from administering gender affirming treatment to minors.