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

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday the search for alternatives to the country's dependence on foreign oil is so urgent that he's willing to throw money at it. ...more

June 24, 2008

The House, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote, approved a sweeping surveillance law Friday that extends the government's eavesdropping capability and effectively shields telecommunications companies from being sued for cooperating with the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. ...more

June 21, 2008

John Lynch's family has been stitching swaths of cloth into flags and banners for 23 years, but the most memorable wasn't one of their own. ...more

June 14, 2008

Pakistani intelligence agents and paramilitary forces have helped train Taliban insurgents and have given them information about U.S. troop movements in Afghanistan, said a report published Monday by a U.S. think tank. ...more

June 10, 2008

The United States is making "a big and continual push" to capture or kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but his demise won't end the organization's menace, CIA Director Michael Hayden said Tuesday in an interview. ...more

May 28, 2008

The managing operators of Plant City Airport are used to challenges to their business. ...more

May 28, 2008

A Department of Homeland Security program to strengthen port security has gaps that terrorists could exploit to smuggle weapons of mass destruction in cargo containers, congressional investigators have found. ...more

May 27, 2008

The managing operators of Plant City Airport are used to challenges to their business. ...more

May 24, 2008

Democrats are sharply questioning a U.S. aid program that has reimbursed Pakistan's military $6 billion since 2001 for anti-terrorism operations along its Afghanistan border, contending the program has grown too costly. ...more

May 7, 2008