Ryan Lucas
Ryan Lucas covers the Justice Department for NPR.
He focuses on the national security side of the Justice beat, including counterterrorism, counterintelligence and transnational repression.
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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Todd Blanche's attorney general nomination is moving forward after two Republican senators received written assurances the Justice Department would abandon a controversial compensation fund.
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Todd Blanche's attorney general nomination has run into resistance from Republicans demanding answers about a Justice Department settlement tied to Trump's tax returns.
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The news comes as two key Republicans are withholding their support over concerns about the Justice Department's deal with President Trump. -
Blanche won Senate confirmation early in President Trump's second term to serve as the No. 2 official at the Justice Department. Now he's facing a contentious hearing as he seeks the top job. -
A burn pit law from Congress left out thousands of American civilians working for the government who were exposed to the same toxins. Now there's an effort to change that.
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Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, says the bureau disrupted an alleged plot to attack attendees at Sunday's UFC fight at the White House.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom claims the Trump administration is targeting him and his wife.
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President Trump formally nominated his former personal attorney, Todd Blanche, to be the next attorney general. His rise could be a window into the future of the DOJ.
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President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, now a vocal critic of the president, has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified information.
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The Trump administration has expanded one program launched during the Biden administration: an effort to crack down on human smuggling networks.
