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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In 2022, a hitman was allegedly hired as part of a plot hatched in Iran to assassinate Masih Alinejad, a critic of the Iranian regime, in New York. Threats continue to turn her life upside down. -
Meet the dogs who just finished the ATF's canine training program. ATF dogs have supported major events like the Super Bowl and are also used in the bread-and-butter of ATF's work: solving gun crimes. -
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S. government. He's expected to plead guilty to conspiring to obtain and disclose information related to the national defense.
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President Biden made a quick trip to Delaware after his son Hunter was convicted of felony gun charges. It's not clear whether Hunter Biden will appeal the conviction, or when sentencing will occur.
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A federal jury has found Hunter Biden, President Biden's son, guilty of making false statements about his drug use when buying a firearm illegal possession of a firearm by a drug user or addict.
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A federal jury convicted Hunter Biden on two counts of making false statements about his drug use when buying a firearm and one count of illegal possession of a firearm by a drug user or addict.
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This was the first of two cases against Hunter Biden brought by a Justice Department special counsel. Biden also faces tax charges in a separate prosecution scheduled to go to trial in September. -
Following three days of emotional testimony, federal prosecutors have rested their case in the federal gun trial of Hunter Biden. As the defense begins, will the president's son be called to testify?
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Federal prosecutors rested their case Friday in the federal gun trial of Hunter Biden. The case could wrap as early as this week.
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Hunter Biden’s ex wife and his former girlfriend testified Wednesday in a Delaware courtroom about his drug use. His defense asked a FBI special agent about the contents of his infamous laptop.
