Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in September, putting him in the hot seat before one of his major critics in Congress.

Yusef Salaam, who as a child was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused, convicted and imprisoned for the rape of a woman jogging in Central Park, took a commanding lead Tuesday in a Democratic primary for a City Council seat in New York.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, who as a member of Donald Trump's legal team sought to overturn 2020 presidential election results in battleground states, was interviewed recently by investigators with the Justice Department special counsel's office.

The Chinese economy is losing momentum — again. Major banks are cutting their 2023 GDP forecasts for China, only months after raising these projections with much excitement when Beijing lifted the country’s COVID-19 lockdowns. If China fails to hit its own growth target of about 5% this year, it won’t have the pandemic as a scapegoat.