Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales reacts
The Justice Department's internal ethics watchdog said Thursday that two prosecutors in the bungled corruption case against then-Sen. Ted Stevens engaged in reckless...
The Texas parole board refused Tuesday to stop this week's scheduled execution of a Mexican national for raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in a case that has rai...
Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend events in San Francisco and New York, one of her associates confirmed Thursday. The travel...
Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend events in San Francisco and New York, sparking a firestorm of criticism from Cuban-America...
A federal appeals court Friday debated a privacy issue you probably hadn't considered: the government's ability to track your location at any time, if you carry a ce...
How Supreme Court overturning Judge Sotomayor's decision in affirmative action case could affect her getting confirmed
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan got a pledge from a key Democrat to help smooth her path to confirmation, while the top Senate Republican said she must prove she w...
WASHINGTON -- The first black man elected U.S. president is poised to name Washington lawyer Eric Holder as the nation's first black attorney general -- a historic a...
Is President-elect Obama trying to have it both ways when it comes to gay marriage?
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Sen. Patrick Leahy , D-Vt., will return a $1,000 campaign donation from Citigroup, the banking giant that has received $45 billion in federal bail...
Conflicting portraits of the Secret Service took stage Wednesday on Capitol Hill, as senators challenged Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to reconcile th...
Conflicting images of the Secret Service and new questions about the military's handling of the prostitution scandal in Colombia emerged on Capitol Hill on Wednesday...
A simple congressional request for the United States to distinguish between Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict and millions of their descendant...
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee urges the Supreme Court to uphold health care reform law while Catholic groups sue over it. Who will win?
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy slammed the brakes Thursday on Sen. Dick Durbin's decision to give up his Judiciary subcommittee chairmanship and o...
A major scandal is developing around a signature U.S. effort to track and stop the flow of illicit weapons to Mexico, as officials at the Department of Justice close...
A Senate committee outraged over Pakistan imprisoning a doctor who led the U.S. to Usama bin Laden engaged Thursday in some dollar diplomacy by voting to cut aid to ...
A Senate panel expressed its outrage Thursday over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Is...
The Senate Judiciary Committee put off its vote Tuesday on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for one week amid objections from the panel's conservative Republica...