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.
-
President Trump officially nominated Todd Blanche to be the next Attorney General, setting up a potential confirmation fight in Congress.
-
President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, now a vocal critic of the president, has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified information.
-
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department is scrapping its plans for a controversial $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate alleged victims of government weaponization.
-
The Justice Department takes aim at another perceived enemy of President Trump, opening an investigation into E. Jean Carroll, who won two lawsuits against the president.
-
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche is defending a new $1.8 billion Department of Justice fund for people who claim they were targets of politicized prosecutions.
-
President Trump's pardons of public officials and cuts to a Justice Department division focused on public integrity are undermining the fight against public corruption, legal experts say.
-
A 31-year-old suspect from California is at the center of the investigation into the shooting at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
-
The Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center Tuesday, alleging the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to pay informants to infiltrate extremist groups.
-
FBI Director Kash Patel sparked new criticism against his leadership of the bureau after he partied with the U.S. men's hockey team after their Olympic gold medal win.
-
Former special counsel Jack Smith defended his investigations of President Trump for more than four hours Thursday, saying he followed the facts and the law, and wasn't driven by politics.