Before she resigned in protest, the former head of the Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office sent a letter that could give ...

A spate of high-ranking resignations marks a stunning escalation in the standoff over the Trump Administration prioritizing ...

The former prosecutors, both Democrats and Republicans, sharply criticized the Justice Department’s intention to investigate ...

When Danielle Sassoon's college newspaper asked her two decades ago for three words she would use to describe herself, the ...

Sassoon’s refusal followed a long, strange courtship between Adams, a Democrat who not so long ago called himself the “Biden ...

Danielle Sassoon resigned after Trump's justice department ordered her to drop the corruption case against New York Mayor ...

She was appointed as the interim U.S. Attorney for the district on Jan. 21 and had not brought the initial charges against ...

The former acting New York U.S. attorney said Adams' attorneys had offered "what amounted to a quid pro quo" — helping the ...

The stunning development comes amid widespread speculation as to whether she would follow through on the directive and after ...

Manhattan's top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, and five high-ranking Justice Department officials resigned Thursday ...

Danielle Sassoon, a Republican who was interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced her resignation in an email to her staff after being ordered by the Justice Department to ...

Adams criticized the timing of Sassoon's resignation, saying, “she took three weeks to report a 'criminal action' in front of ...