Former President Trump announced he’d invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during a deposition by the New York Attorney General on Wednesday, joining a number of prominent Republicans in his orbit who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after a House Oversight Committee closed-door ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disgraced former Chicago police detective Reynaldo Guevara invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination more than ...

WASHINGTON -- Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers in a deposition Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump ended ...

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer said she would be willing to cooperate with a House panel's probe if President Trump grants her clemency, and would testify that he is "innocent of any wrongdoing." ...

Former special counsel Jack Smith did not invoke his Fifth Amendment rights during eight hours of testimony Wednesday behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee, the panel’s chairman said.

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment and wouldn’t answer questions under oath in the New York attorney general’s long-running civil investigation into his business dealings, the ...

Jed I. Bergman and Cynthia M. Jordano summarize the key principles courts generally apply in deciding whether to permit Fifth Amendment adverse inferences in civil suits against corporate defendants.

In many western democracies, the way this would play out would be that the press (and opposition parties) would hound the politicians mercilessly until they resigned in shame and disgrace. In the UK, ...