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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A fight looms over warrantless collection of communication of foreigners overseas. -
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. -
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.
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The FBI is conducting a search of former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home, according to a source familiar with the matter and a Justice Department official.
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It's been nearly a week since the U.S. shot down the spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina. The incident is reverberating in Washington as the Navy and FBI work to recover the balloon's remains.
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FBI and State Department officials gave reporters an update on some of what the U.S. has learned so far about the balloon. -
Federal prosecutors have charged a neo-Nazi leader and a Maryland woman with conspiring to attack power stations near Baltimore.
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Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimihe, the Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, was handed over to U.S. authorities.
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A federal jury found the Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and one other defendant guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. -
A federal jury has convicted Stewart Rhodes, founder of the militia group Oath Keepers, of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack.
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Defense attorneys and prosecutors made their closing arguments in the Oath Keepers trial, who are charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack.
