Prosecutors plan to revise charges against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to avoid any delays that could be caused by an adverse Supreme Court ruling on honest services fraud.
Members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board make more than $500,000 a year, and the president can do little about it, conservative justices suggested in oral arguments yesterday on…
A federal judge has agreed that billionaire Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, can proceed with discovery in his effort to force the feds to pay his…
Citing a new federal law that allows the government to withhold photographs of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq reportedly being abused by their United States captors, the nation’s top court…
When President Nixon declared that Charles Manson was guilty of seven California murders, the cult leader sought to use the comment to his advantage. He showed jurors the headline “Manson…
President Obama is lagging behind his predecessor in making judicial nominations, disappointing liberals who had hoped to see a new federal judiciary quickly take shape.
Updated: Reports on the likely resignation of White House counsel Greg Craig surfaced once again this morning, and this time there was a time frame and a mention of a…
Developing: A federal forfeiture action was filed today by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan seeking possession of $500 million in United States assets allegedly held by front companies for…
An American citizen who was allegedly held and interrogated in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia at the behest of his own country’s law enforcement agents over a several-month period in 2007…
Although federal authorities have said there is no known link between last week’s shootings at a military base at Fort Hood, Texas, and organized terrorist groups, a former U.S. attorney…
Twenty-three Americans tried in absentia in Italy have been convicted of kidnapping an Egyptian terror suspect as part of a CIA extraordinary rendition program.
Lawyers defending five former Blackwater Worldwide contractors in an Iraq manslaughter case are calling for the U.S. government to provide the same kind of security for their work that the…
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