Ryan J. Reilly

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes |Allan Smith |Corky Siemaszko |Ryan J. Reilly

May 28, 2025, 6:07 PM EDTDisgraced reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were preparing for their release from prison Wednesday, a day after President Donald Trump personally told two of their adult children he was planning to pardon them. The "Trumps of the South," who were convicted in 2022 of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States, will be released after intervention by one of his daughters.

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Ryan J. Reilly |Ted Oberg

May 28, 2025, 5:00 AM EDTWASHINGTON — The government's evidence against Scott Jenkins was compelling, including undercover video and other corroboration showing Jenkins, then the sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, accepting over $75,000 in exchange for giving law enforcement authority to local businessmen, as well as two undercover FBI special agents.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Ryan J. Reilly |Gary Grumbach

May 23, 2025, 6:16 PM EDTWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s executive order against the Jenner & Block law firm is unlawful because it violates the First Amendment, a judge ruled late Friday. U.S. District Judge John Bates said going after law firms the way Trump has “is doubly violative of the Constitution" because it targets Jenner & Block due to the causes the firm champions, the clients they represent, and a lawyer they once employed.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Rich Schapiro |Ryan J. Reilly |Benjamin Goggin |Andrew Blankstein

May 23, 2025, 9:46 AM EDTOn a darkened sidewalk outside the Capital Jewish Museum, he walked past the young couple, then shot them both point-blank in the back. When the woman tried to crawl away, an FBI affidavit says, he reloaded his weapon and fired at her again and again. “Free Palestine,” the man shouted after walking into the building and waiting to be arrested by police.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Ken Dilanian |Ryan J. Reilly

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is dismissing lawsuits against a number of local police departments and ending investigations into patterns and practices of unconstitutional behavior, officials announced Wednesday. The pullback from police oversight comes amid major change at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since the start of the Trump administration and the confirmation of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon, who is leading the division.