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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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.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department is scrapping its plans for a controversial $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate alleged victims of government weaponization.
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The Justice Department is no longer moving ahead with its $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund. It was a tumultuous couple weeks for a controversial idea that was championed by some MAGA supporters.