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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Indian officials were in the U.S. earlier in October for talks about an alleged plot to target an American activist. He talks about how having a target on his back has changed his life.
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The Justice Department has charged a former Indian intelligence official in a foiled assassination plot targeting an American citizen in New York City.
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The Justice Department vowed to investigate Americans killed by Hamas in the group's Oct. 7 attack on Israel. But the DOJ has done nothing to investigate deaths of 4 Americans killed in the West Bank and Gaza by Israelis. -
Prosecutors provided the most detailed look yet at their election interference case against former President Donald Trump. -
American intelligence officials briefed former President Donald Trump on threats from Iran to assassinate him. A Trump campaign spokesman says the focus was on real and specific threats.
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The suspect in the apparent assassination attempt yesterday of former President Donald Trump made his initial appearance in federal court Monday.
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In a last-minute move, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to tax charges Thursday, avoiding what could have been an embarrassing trial. -
A gunman opened fire on a moving car carrying a Sikh separatist, fueling suspicion the shooting may have been targeting his activism.
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The social media account had antisemitic and anti-immigrant comments that could be linked to the shooter, though officials are still working to verify the account's authenticity, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said. -
The FBI has shared more of what it is learning about the shooter who tried to kill former President Donald Trump at a rally in western Pennsylvania.
