A lawyer for one of five men facing trial for the Sept. 11 attacks says the men plan to plead not guilty and use the trial to express their political views. ...more

November 22, 2009

A Republican lawmaker wants the Justice Department to investigate ACORN, a community organization under fire for several voter-registration fraud cases. ...more

September 15, 2009

The Obama administration is delaying by a week its release of an internal CIA report on the agency's Bush-era secret detention and interrogation program. ...more

June 20, 2009

A tax preparer and his firm, accused of claiming millions of dollars in false deductions for clients, have been permanently barred from preparing federal tax returns, the U.S. Department of Justice reported Wednesday. ...more

May 28, 2009

City commissioners are hoping the federal stimulus package might help stem turnover at the city's police department. ...more

May 27, 2009

The U.S. Justice Department says a Florida law that would make it more expensive for travel agents to book trips to Cuba interferes with existing federal regulations. ...more

March 22, 2009

A woman who claims she was humiliated on her wedding night because she had to spend it in jail in her wedding gown has filed a complaint with Texas authorities. ...more

March 21, 2009

The Obama administration on Friday dropped the term "enemy combatant" as a label for people held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and increased the legal threshold needed to detain them. ...more

March 14, 2009

OBAMA'S ORDERS •Close the much-maligned Guantanamo facility within a year, a complicated process with many unanswered questions. The administration already has suspended trials for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo for 120 days pending a review of the military tribunals. ...more

January 23, 2009

About 3.4 million Americans identified themselves as victims of stalking during a one-year span, say federal crime experts who on Tuesday released the largest-ever survey of the phenomenon. ...more

January 14, 2009