Alex Acosta

The FBI wanted to arrest Jeffrey Epstein while he was judging a beauty pageant in the Virgin Islands seven months before he signed a non-prosecution deal that shielded him from federal sex crime charges, a Justice Department report says. The 347-page report obtained by NBC News expands on an executive summary released Thursday of a probe into a more than decade-old...

A Justice Department investigation found that federal prosecutors who oversaw a controversial non-prosecution deal with Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 exercised “poor judgment” but did not break the law, Sen. Ben Sasse said Thursday.

President Donald Trump has told aides and allies that he is considering removing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross after a stinging Supreme Court defeat on adding a citizenship question to the census, multiple people familiar with the conversations told NBC News. While Trump has previously expressed frustration with the 81-year-old Ross, in particular over failed trade negotiations, Ross’s long personal relationship...

U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta is resigning amid criticism for his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case while he was the U.S. Attorney in Miami.

Outgoing U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta and President Donald Trump told reporters Friday why Acosta is leaving the administration amid fallout over Acosta’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case years ago at the U.S. Attorney in for the Southern District of Florida.

U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta addressed the media Wednesday to discuss how his department handled the Jeffrey Epstein case while he served as a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida

Attorney General William Barr said there may be a legal path to Donald Trump’s goal to adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census count, despite a temporary block by the Supreme Court.

The Trump administration is “looking into” Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s role in securing an unusually lenient plea deal — the details of which were illegally kept hidden from the dozens of victims in the case — for sex offender and well-connected former hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, 66, reached a nonprosecution deal in 2008 with then-Miami U.S. Attorney Acosta’s...

The Labor Department said Friday it wants salary level to count in deciding who is eligible for overtime pay. But it’s holding off setting the maximum pay a worker can get and still qualify. That’s according to a brief filed by the Trump administration in federal court in New Orleans in a case over whether President Barack Obama’s administration had...

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Alex Acosta as secretary of labor, filling out President Donald Trump’s cabinet as he approaches his 100th day in office. The 60-38 vote confirms Acosta to the post. Once sworn as the nation’s 27th secretary of labor, the son of Cuban immigrants will lead an a sprawling agency that enforces more than 180 federal laws...

At his Thursday news conference, President Donald Trump wasted little time getting to one of his favorite subjects: bashing the “fake news media.” But Trump did take a moment to single out one example of an organization he believes is doing it right.