Author: Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY

Though COVID-19 drove down the number of executions this year, the federal government put to death more prisoners than all states combined.

Former DHS election security chief Krebs sues Trump campaign, lawyer for defamation

Separately, Biden has reportedly picked Dr. Rochelle Walensky, a Harvard infectious disease expert, to replace Dr. Robert Redfield as CDC director.

California psychologist emerges in secretive pardon probe

Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

The FBI posted a nearly 8% decline from 2019 in background checks for Black Friday gun purchases, but it’s still the fourth-largest one day total on record.

Purdue Pharma, the company whose OxyContin painkiller that drove a nationwide opioid epidemic, has agreed to a settlement including $8 billion fines.

“No country has weaponized its cyber capabilities as maliciously,” said a U.S. DOJ representative.