The U.S. Department of State has “failed to respond substantively” to five of six Freedom of Information Act requests made as long ago as 2010 concerning Hillary Rodham Clinton, the…
The fatal shooting three years ago of an unarmed Florida teenager in a gated community by volunteer neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman “was a devastating tragedy,” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder…
In a first for the U.S. Army, the commandant of the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, military prison where Chelsea Manning is being held has approved female hormone treatment.
In a federal lawsuit filed last week against a former client, Venable doesn’t simply accuse Overseas Lease Group Inc. of failing to pay a $300,000 bill.
A group called Priests for Life says it won’t comply with a federal appeals court ruling on Friday upholding an accommodation that allows religious nonprofits to opt out from providing…
After news that the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., has agreed to dismiss 28 drug cases, including approximately a dozen that had already resulted in convictions, defense lawyers are…
After about two months of trial and seven weeks of deliberation, a federal jury in Washington, D.C., has convicted four former Blackwater Worldwide private security contractors in the 2007 slaying…
A U.S. Army private convicted last year as Bradley Manning in a high-profile military secrets case for providing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, is back in…
A man accused of scaling a fence and entering the executive mansion at the White House with a knife Friday is a decorated U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq.
Joining a trend that has sparked the creation of conviction-integrity units in a number of state prosecutor’s offices, the District of Columbia is establishing what is billed as the first…
Five hours after leaving Washington, D.C., for Beijing a United Airlines flight returned to Washington Dulles International Airport on Thursday because a passenger was suspected of violating a child-custody order…
A federal appeals court will reconsider a decision that undermined the Obama administration’s health-care law by banning tax credits to people in states that didn’t set up their own insurance…
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