Investigations

According to the lawsuit filed in federal court in California, the groups argue that for years Congress has approved and allocated to the federal government millions of dollars to help pay for legal services for unaccompanied children in immigration court.

In response to more federal cuts by the Trump administration, another lawsuit has been filed by nearly a dozen groups who say the cuts could impact thousands of children in immigration court.

The Supreme Court just handed down a ruling that could have a big ripple effect, and it centers on the criminal case of a former Chicago alderman.

The first shots were on a digital battlefield–an app called Signal, used by teenagers and adults to privately communicate and share videos with friends. It’s a favorite app for sexting because it is encrypted. But it’s not intended to be a government venue for anything sensitive such as the decisions about whether to wage a U.S. m...

After revelations that U.S. plans to attack Yemen in a Signal chat were inadvertently shared with a journalist, NBC Chicago’s Chuck Goudie has more on what makes information classified.

U.S. officials say two high-ranking cartel operatives, now at the MCC Chicago and being held on drug trafficking charges here, were among 29 federal fugitives recently “transferred” over the border by Mexican authorities. The group is expected to be just the first flight of wanted drug fugitives by Mexican justice officials to the United States. “T...

The top federal law enforcement position in northern Illinois has been vacant for two years, but NBC 5 Investigates has been told by several sources that Andrew Boutros will be tapped to become the Chicago district’s next U.S. Attorney. NBC Chicago learned on Monday that Boutros will soon be announced, two years after John Lausch stepped down...

Friday is final day at The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights in Chicago. What will happen to the hundreds of complaints and open cases?

What took just a few seconds and changed the course of American history is documented in more than six million pages of investigative reports: The JFK Files.

Reporter’s note: this story makes reference to suicide and self-harm. CHICAGO – A Highland Park couple is advocating for change inside the so-called “troubled teen industry” months after their son died inside a Utah residential treatment facility. When Katy and Josh Silvers learned their 17-year-old son, Biruk, died from an apparent suicide in Nove...

Investigators have long concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F. Kennedy, but new files have been released this week could shed new light on the killing. While Kennedy was killed in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, there were multiple plots being hatched against him in the weeks leading to his death, including one based in Chicago...

NBC 5 Investigates a question that affects millions of Americans and why it may be the nation’s least-prosecuted crime.

Al Capone was the first. El Mencho is the current. Both men held the unsavory title of Chicago’s Public Enemy Number One. There is one big difference between the city’s most wanted fugitives: at least “Scarface” Capone actually lived in the city. El Mencho, whose real name is Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, resides in Mexico according to U.S. law enforce...