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.

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.

Miami area taxpayers are not reimbursed for the cost of providing security for presidential visits.

The Obama administration's appeal in the legal fight over morning-after pills has been officially put on hold until a judge weighs a new plan to allow girls of all ages to buy the contraceptives without a prescription, according to a government letter filed Tuesday.

A lawyer for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday urged a military judge not to order release of its confidential communications with the Pentagon about Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other captives accused of perpetrating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

A federal appeals court judge Tuesday called on the president and Congress to consider a different approach to the handling of legal cases of Guantánamo Bay prisoners.

In response to a suit by The Miami Herald, the Defense Department released Monday the names of 48 Guantánamo men deemed too dangerous to release but ineligible for trial.

Alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks returned to the war court Monday for a week-long pretrial hearing, four months after defense lawyers discovered listening devices in their confidential meeting rooms.

Five Guantánamo Bay prisoners accused of helping orchestrate the Sept. 11 terror attack returned to court Monday as arguments resumed over preparations for a trial that remains distant.

President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with extensive experience in all three branches of the government to be the State Department's special envoy for closing down the military-run prison at the Guantánamo Bay Navy Base in Cuba.

Guantánamo's chief war crimes prosecutor predicts there will be just seven more war crimes trials after 9/11, USS Cole death cases.

Writers in an influential medical journal are urging a mutiny at the U.S. Navy base prison where, as of Thursday, Navy medics were tube-feeding 43 hunger strikers

For more than three months, the U.S. military has faced off with defiant prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay, strapping down as many as 44 each day to feed them a liquid nutrient mix through a nasal tube to prevent them from starving to death.

The House overwhelmingly passed a sweeping, $638 billion defense bill on Friday that imposes new punishments on members of the armed services found guilty of rape or sexual assault and blocks closure of the Guantánamo detention center.

It's a message busy New Yorkers hate to get: the low-battery message on your cellphone when there's no charger in sight.

One of several Cuban dissidents recently allowed to visit Europe and the U.S. after Cuba changed its travel laws said Tuesday she decided to seek refuge in Miami after facing continued repression on the island.

A tornado warning for Denver International Airport is over and no damage has been reported.

A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a chaotic search for a murder suspect that was recorded by a reality TV crew.

President Barack Obama’s administration on Thursday defended a newly disclosed National Security Agency program that gathers telephone records of tens of millions of Verizon customers, authorized under a secret court order.

Attorney General Eric Holder denied Thursday that the Obama administration is killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes to avoid capturing them and sending them to the Guantánamo prison it wants to close.

Defying Republican critics, President Barack Obama named outspoken diplomat Susan Rice as his national security adviser Wednesday, giving her a larger voice in U.S. foreign policy despite accusations that she misled the nation in the aftermath of the deadly attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya.

The former senator has accused the FBI in court papers of failing to inform Congress about a possible Florida connection to the attacks on 9/11.

An 84-year-old Zephyrhills woman stepped forward today as the winner of the largest single jackpot in American lottery history, valued at $590.5 million.

Buoyed by the discovery of a woman buried in rubble nearly 13 hours later, rescue workers on Thursday were digging through the debris from a building collapse that killed six people a day earlier, even though they believed no one else was trapped.

Marine Corps. Gen. John F. Kelly says military has no incentives to offer hunger strikers to halt their protest at Guantánamo; disagrees with President Barack Obama that the ‘enteral feedings’ equal force-feedings.

The man accused of orchestrating the bombing of a U.S. Navy warship that killed 17 suffers from PTSD and depression but is fit to stand trial, according to a military mental health assessment of the captive who’d been waterboarded.