The director of the National Security Agency testified Tuesday that the government’s massive surveillance program helped thwart more than 50 terrorist “events” worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001, including a planned bombing of the New York Stock Exchange that involved a Kansas City man.
The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats characterized as yet another example of a GOP war on women.
A Florida man has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for sending counterfeit Gillette razor blades to Meijer stores in western Michigan.
Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of former Mayor Marion Barry, has died.
The poll results could be a big boost to Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential presidential candidate in 2016.
Members of Congress on Tuesday expressed growing doubts about the way the country’s top-secret surveillance programs are managed, even as the top legislators from each party voiced confidence in the programs and showed little interest in a public discussion of the issue.
In what should go down as one of the most bizarre days in recent U.S. Senate history, Marco Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida, a Cuban-American, introduced Tuesday an amendment to the immigration reform bill requiring English proficiency of all citizenship candidates.
Miami area taxpayers are not reimbursed for the cost of providing security for presidential visits.
For the second time in as many months, a Muslim civil rights group is pursuing criminal charges on behalf o...
The Cape Wind offshore wind project has secured a $200 million investment from a Danish pension fund in wha...
Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for the October 2000 stabbing deaths of a couple on whose ra...
After initially defying federal regulators, Chrysler abruptly agreed Tuesday to recall some older-model Jee...
A spokeswoman for Maine Gov. Paul LePage says the administration will no longer comment for stories publish...
A California couple have been convicted of luring an acquaintance to their home and strangling her to kidna...
A woman from the ritzy New York City suburb of Scarsdale who is accused of raising thousands of marijuana p...
The Obama administration's appeal in the legal fight over morning-after pills has been officially put on ho...
Survivors and family members of those killed in the terror attacks say the FBI needs to make public details...
President Barack Obama’s administration on Thursday defended a newly disclosed National Security Agenc...
Attorney General Eric Holder denied Thursday that the Obama administration is killing suspected terrorists ...
Ambassador Susan Rice leaves little record on Latin America and Caribbean issues at the U.N. as she heads t...
Defying Republican critics, President Barack Obama named outspoken diplomat Susan Rice as his national secu...
The former senator has accused the FBI in court papers of failing to inform Congress about a possible Flori...
Defense lawyers in the 9/11 trial want access to reports from the Red Cross to the Pentagon to learn more a...
A federal appeals court judge Tuesday called on the president and Congress to consider a different approach...
In response to a suit by The Miami Herald, the Defense Department released Monday the names of 48 Guant...
Alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks retur...
These are the names and nationalities of the 48 Guantánamo captives, whom an Obama administration Task...
Five Guantánamo Bay prisoners accused of helping orchestrate the Sept. 11 terror attack returned to co...
President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with extensive experience in all three b...
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