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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Prosecutors linked the men with a globe-hopping campaign of sabotage, espionage and election interference. They work for the same spy agency that targeted the U.S. in 2016. -
Special Agent Richard Trask revealed the Virginia connection for the first time on Tuesday, testifying in federal court in Michigan. -
The Justice Department has charged Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh over their alleged involvement in the torture and killings of four Americans held hostage by the Islamic State in Syria. -
The Justice Department is expected to announce charges this week against two British nationals suspected of being part of an Islamic State cell accused of torturing and beheading Western hostages.
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The president is waging multiple court battles to shield his finances from scrutiny, including two cases involving subpoenas issued to his personal accounting firm. -
Newly surfaced materials in the legal case involving former national security adviser Michael Flynn show that an investigator was dubious. Flynn's advocates call his case a frame-up by the feds. -
Senate Republicans released their investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden's son, who was paid by a Ukrainian company as his father handled Ukraine affairs under President Obama. -
The announcement is the latest in a series of official measures and public condemnations by U.S. officials in response to what they call an epidemic of cyber-espionage emanating from China. -
Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach has been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department. Now President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani is trying to downplay the significance of his contacts with Derkach.
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President Trump's lawyer sought to downplay his meeting and contacts with a Ukrainian member of parliament who has been described by the U.S. as attempting to interfere in the 2020 election.
