Ryan Lucas
Ryan Lucas covers the Justice Department for NPR.
He focuses on the national security side of the Justice beat, including counterterrorism and counterintelligence. Lucas also covers a host of other justice issues, including the Trump administration's "tough-on-crime" agenda and anti-trust enforcement.
Before joining NPR, Lucas worked for a decade as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press based in Poland, Egypt and Lebanon. In Poland, he covered the fallout from the revelations about secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe. In the Middle East, he reported on the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and the turmoil that followed. He also covered the Libyan civil war, the Syrian conflict and the rise of the Islamic State. He reported from Iraq during the U.S. occupation and later during the Islamic State takeover of Mosul in 2014.
He also covered intelligence and national security for Congressional Quarterly.
Lucas earned a bachelor's degree from The College of William and Mary, and a master's degree from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
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Ian Rogers and Jarrod Copeland are facing several federal charges. Prosecutors say that at one point, Rogers told Copeland: "I want to blow up a democrat building bad." -
It was six months ago that a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. That deadly event stunned the nation, led to Donald Trump's second impeachment and spurred a massive federal probe.
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Mark Grods pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding. The 54-year-old Alabama man has also agreed to cooperate with investigators. -
The court's decision states that Rudy Giuliani's conduct as a lawyer for former President Donald Trump during the election and in the aftermath "threatens the public interest." -
The conspiracy case involving the Oath Keepers extremist group is one of the most closely watched of those related to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. -
The secret DOJ subpoena sought account information for Don McGahn as well as his wife. It is unclear what the department was investigating or whether prosecutors obtained any account information. -
The Trump Justice Department subpoenaed Apple in 2018 to obtain metadata of at least two Democratic members of the House intelligence panel — as well as their current and former staff and family.
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The Trump Justice Department sought metadata from Apple to investigate members of the House Intelligence Committee, a source tells NPR. Democratic leaders want former attorneys general to testify. -
The Justice Department simultaneously distanced itself from the allegations Carroll has made that former President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. -
Former White House counsel Don McGahn sits down Friday for a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee. The scope of the allowed questions, however, will be limited.
