Senior officials in Washington were meeting with Manhattan prosecutors and defense lawyers representing Mayor Eric Adams to discuss dropping the corruption case against him.

Abrupt firings, senior officials demoted, and career employees left reeling -- US President Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to a Justice Department he accuses of unjustly prosecuting him. Across the Justice Department a number of high-ranking officials have been demoted or reassigned in moves by the new administration that have unsettled career employees.

Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.

The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump's administration on Monday fired more than a dozen Justice Department lawyers who brought two criminal cases against him, an official said, as the Republican moves swiftly to exert greater control over the department.

As he begins his second week in office, President Trump's acting attorney general fired a number of prosecutors who worked on the government's cases against President Trump. The president was expected to sign a new round of executive actions,