Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed during a speech Thursday night and was being taken to a hospital. ...more

November 21, 2008

In the face of growing questions about the strength of the evidence, the Justice Department is preparing to declare the 2001 anthrax case solved and to make its case publicly today against a military scientist who killed himself after investigators linked him to the attacks, federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday. ...more

August 6, 2008

Most of us can easily picture a scene in which a villain is forced to talk by tough good guys who find out just in time how to stop a ticking bomb that would have destroyed a city. ...more

January 31, 2008

The nation's intelligence chief says waterboarding "would be torture" if used against him or if someone under interrogation was taking water into his lungs. ...more

January 13, 2008

Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Wednesday that the Justice Department has elevated its inquiry into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes to a formal criminal investigation headed by a career federal prosecutor. ...more

January 3, 2008

Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to give Congress details of the government's investigation into interrogations of terrorism suspects that were videotaped and destroyed by the CIA. He said doing so could raise questions about whether the inquiry is vulnerable to political pressure. ...more

December 15, 2007

A Senate Democratic leader said Sunday that the attorney general should appoint a special counsel to investigate the CIA's destruction of videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists. ...more

December 10, 2007

Marchers surrounded the Justice Department headquarters on Friday to demand federal intervention in the "Jena Six" case and stepped-up enforcement of hate crimes. ...more

November 17, 2007

President Bush welcomed Michael Mukasey back into government Wednesday and promised to help the new attorney general rebuild the top leadership of the Justice Department. ...more

November 15, 2007

Following sometimes bitter debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-8 on Tuesday to send Michael Mukasey's nomination as attorney general to the Senate floor, where confirmation is expected soon. ...more

November 7, 2007