Federal agents from FBI and IRS probed the SPLC's paid informant program starting in Trump's first term.

The superseding indictment does not contain any new charges or name new defendants from the original version, which was ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced Tuesday it is under investigation by the Department of Justice, a move that comes after the Trump administration has repeatedly admonished the civil ...

The Justice Department has accused the SPLC of infiltrating extremist groups with paid informants, adding to years of leadership upheaval at the nonprofit.

The Southern Poverty Law Center says a Justice Department indictment against the group is part of a “top-down” campaign of ...

The Justice Department announced charges Tuesday against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging the storied civil rights organization defrauded its donors by funding the extremism it claimed to be ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on fraud charges for its use of paid informants to monitor and track racist organizations, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Tuesday. The ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center is the target of a federal investigation, potentially over the use of paid informants to gather intelligence on extremist groups, the organization said in a statement ...

The United States did not always have a Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant founded it in 1870 to help suppress the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern states and enforce federal civil rights ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups without disclosing the payments to donors, acting ...