Roger Stone, a self-styled "dirty trickster" and longtime adviser to President Trump, is expected to appeal. The president, meanwhile, has left open the door to a possible pardon for Stone.

Jackson has been a player in Washington, D.C.'s legal world for three decades and now is center stage amid disputes over Roger Stone and the independence of the Justice Department.

Roger Stone, a longtime political operative and ally of President Donald Trump, was sentenced in federal court Thursday to 40 months in prison by Judge Amy Berman Jackson.

President Trump's political adviser was found guilty on all counts by a federal jury last year after he was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing its investigation.

Jackson will decide Roger Stone's sentence in the middle of a political controversy as President Trump has attacked the case against Stone, and gone after Jackson on Twitter.

A spokeswoman says the attorney general has "no plans to resign," but the news adds to questions about the politicization of the Justice Department in this administration.

Attorney General William Barr told people he was considering resigning over frustration with the president's public statements about Justice Department cases, an administration official said.

Here's a closer look at the wild back-and-forth between Attorney General William Barr and President Trump about the sentencing of Roger Stone, a longtime friend and confidant of Trump.

Attorney General William Barr asked President Trump to "stop tweeting" about Department of Justice cases in an ABC News interview. He said Trump has "never asked me to do anything in a criminal case."

President Trump had called the seven-to-nine-year sentence prosecutors had initially sought "unfair." His Justice Department then requested a lesser sentence.

Four Chinese military hackers have been charged in connection with a cyberattack — one that stole info from nearly 150 million Americans, according to the department of Justice.

The attorney general tried to mollify President Trump and Republicans by suggesting he'd be receptive to a briefing by Rudy Giuliani — but said everything that comes in must be scrubbed well.

The credit agency Equifax was compromised by a cyberattack that permitted China's military to steal names, Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information.

The attorney general himself must approve opening a case into an active presidential race. President Trump and supporters have decried what they've called bias by the FBI during the 2016 campaign.

The U.S. government charged two Boston-area academics with lying about their contacts with the Chinese government, and a third with allegedly attempting to smuggle biological research out of the U.S.

Democratic impeachment managers in the Senate trial against President Trump will finish opening statements Friday. Trump's defense team is to begin its response in the chamber on Saturday.

Thursday saw the second day of oral arguments in President Trump's impeachment trial. Democratic House managers continued to make the case to remove the president from office.

Someone facing federal charges usually keeps a low profile. Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, takes a different approach with a series of headline-grabbing cable news appearances.

New evidence related to Rudy Giuliani's effort to use Ukraine to help President Trump win reelection were among documents provided by Lev Parnas, an associate of Giuliani. How credible is Parnas?

Attorney General William Barr announced findings Monday from the federal investigation into the December shooting by a Saudi national at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla.