Bondi was confirmed by a vote of 54 to 46, and will now take the reins at the Justice Department at a moment when it is facing questions about the risk of political influence at the department.
"We are being tasked to assist the department in recalling USAID employees to the United States by Saturday," State Department official Seth Green wrote in an email to staff on Tuesday.
The details on FBI employees comes in response to a Justice Department memo last week, asking for names of all current and former FBI personnel who worked on Jan. 6 cases or the prosecution of Hamas ...
The department tracks student achievement, manages college financial aid and sends K-12 schools money to support students with disabilities and lower-income communities, among other things.
In the hours after a collision of a Black Hawk helicopter with a passenger airliner last week, social media exploded, falsely blaming a transgender Virginia National Guard service member.
The Trump administration is preparing to issue an executive action in the coming weeks that would attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.