WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators piecing together a brazen attempt to bring down a trans-Atlantic airliner said today the suspect tucked a small bag holding his deadly concoction on his body, using an explosive that would have been easily detected with the right airport equipment. ...more

December 27, 2009

The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration lawfully can pay the community group ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group. ...more

November 28, 2009

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