Ryan Lucas
Ryan Lucas covers the Justice Department for NPR.
He focuses on the national security side of the Justice beat, including counterterrorism and counterintelligence. Lucas also covers a host of other justice issues, including the Trump administration's "tough-on-crime" agenda and anti-trust enforcement.
Before joining NPR, Lucas worked for a decade as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press based in Poland, Egypt and Lebanon. In Poland, he covered the fallout from the revelations about secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe. In the Middle East, he reported on the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and the turmoil that followed. He also covered the Libyan civil war, the Syrian conflict and the rise of the Islamic State. He reported from Iraq during the U.S. occupation and later during the Islamic State takeover of Mosul in 2014.
He also covered intelligence and national security for Congressional Quarterly.
Lucas earned a bachelor's degree from The College of William and Mary, and a master's degree from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
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Smart guns have mainly been the stuff of movies. In the real world, technological and political challenges have meant the high-tech devices haven't become a reality. That may be about to change. -
The premise behind a smart gun is simple. Technology similar to what's in your smart phone only allows a registered user to unlock and fire it. A Colorado startup says its bringing one to market.
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The 21-year-old Air National Guardsman accused of leaking a trove of U.S. intelligence documents is facing charges under the espionage act. He made his initial court appearance today.
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Thursday afternoon, FBI agents arrested a 21-year-old suspect — who is a member of the air national guard — in a major break in the investigation into the leak of secret U.S. intelligence documents.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is suing the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan for what he says are Jordan's attempts to interfere in the Trump prosecution.
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The latest on what's known about President Donald Trump's indictment by a New York grand jury, and what to expect at his scheduled appearance in a Manhattan court room next week.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a multitude of legal challenges. What's the status of those investigations?
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a multitude of legal challenges. What's the status of those investigations?
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A fight looms over warrantless collection of communication of foreigners overseas.
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Should Congress extend a law that lets U.S. intelligence spy on communications involving Americans? The law expires at the end of the year unless Congress renews it.
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The Justice Department's Task Force KleptoCapture, set up in the days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has gone after Kremlin-aligned elites, including their luxury yachts and opulent homes.
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A Justice Department task force targeting Kremlin-aligned Russian oligarchs has seized more than $500 million of their riches — including everything from luxury yachts to opulent homes.
