The Justice Department released nearly 100 documents Tuesday that it used to falsely accuse scientist Steven J. Hatfill of masterminding the 2001 anthrax attacks. ...more

November 25, 2008

Another frightening new government report is heightening fears about the safety of the U.S. biodefense laboratories that study some of the world's deadliest germs. The latest worry: Intruders could easily break into two of the labs because of lax security. ...more

October 17, 2008

The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that he does not believe Bruce Ivins acted alone in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. ...more

September 18, 2008

Victims of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks said Thursday that they are satisfied with the investigation's outcome that pinned the blame on an Army scientist. And now, the widow of a dead photo editor said, it's time for the government to settle her lawsuit and pay up. ...more

August 8, 2008

Revelations about anthrax scientist Bruce Ivins' mental instability have exposed what congressional leaders and security experts call startling gaps in how the federal government safeguards its most dangerous biological materials, even as the number of bioscience laboratories has grown rapidly since the 2001 terror attacks. ...more

August 8, 2008

More than a year before the anthrax attacks that killed five people in 2001, Bruce Ivins told a counselor he was interested in a young woman who lived out of town and had "mixed poison" and taken it with him when he went to watch her play in a soccer match. ...more

August 7, 2008

DNA taken from the bodies of people killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks helped lead investigators to Bruce Ivins, who oversaw the highly specific type of toxin in an Army lab, a government scientist said Sunday. ...more

August 4, 2008

The evidence amassed by FBI investigators against Bruce E. Ivins, the Army scientist who killed himself last week after learning that he was likely to be charged in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, was largely circumstantial, and a grand jury in Washington was planning to hear several more weeks of testimony before issuing an indictment, a person who has been briefed on the investigation said Sunday. ...more

August 4, 2008

The Justice Department agreed Friday to pay biological-weapons expert Steven Hatfill a settlement valued at $5.85 million to drop a lawsuit he filed after then-Attorney General John Ashcroft named him a "person of interest" in the investigation of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. ...more

June 28, 2008