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- Four Georgia men in their 60s and 70s were arrested Tuesday, accused of being members of a right-wing militia group that plotted to attack federal office buildings and to disperse a deadly biological poison in Atlanta.
NEW YORK - After intensive checking of records and sources, there is still nothing to confirm a Pakistani intelligence source's warning of a vehicle bomb plot around the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, several intelligence, law enforcement, and Homeland Security officials said Saturday night.
A judge in Washington, DC, might decide as early as Friday whether the federal government will get another chance to put pitching star Roger Clemens on trial, after prosecutors bungled the case earlier this summer on charges involving baseball's steroids scandal.
Doctors treating Jared Loughner, the Arizona man accused of killing six people and wounding 13 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, have told a federal judge that after roughly three months of treatment at a prison hospital, he is still not mentally competent to stand trial.
The Justice Department says new rules governing a fund to compensate victims of the 9/11 attacks will include a broader area around ground zero than was used during the first round of compensation.
Opening up a new front in its legal battles with the Obama administration, the state of Arizona on Thursday challenged the federal Voting Rights Act, prompting a swift response from Attorney General Eric Holder.
- The Department of Homeland Security is proposing to restrict the sale of ammonium nitrate, a commonly used fertilizer that has also been an ingredient in terrorist bombings for decades.
The Justice Department on Monday brought a legal challenge to Alabama's tough new immigration law, opening up a new front in the battle between states and the Obama administration over immigration enforcement.
The FBI has arrested a man accused of acting as an agent of Pakistan's state intelligence service while funneling roughly $2 million in political contributions in the U.S., prompting one recipient to offer to return money received from the suspect.
Red-faced Justice Department lawyers backtracked Tuesday on statements they made that undercut the FBI's findings about who committed the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks.
A member of the al Shababh terror group in Somalia was secretly brought to the U.S. early Tuesday to stand trial in federal court, after spending weeks revealing "valuable intelligence information" about al-Qaida's operations in Somalia and Yemen, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday.
- Computer hackers shut down al-Qaida's ability to communicate its messages to the world through the Internet, interrupting the group's flow of videos and communiqués, according to a terrorism expert.
Two men have been arrested in an alleged plot to attack a military recruit processing station in Seattle with machine guns, Justice Department officials said Thursday.
A federal judge has declared that Florida's system for sentencing in death penalty cases is unconstitutional, a ruling that could become a factor in the prosecution of Casey Anthony, the Florida mother accused of murdering her daughter. Her trial is under way in Orlando.
- The man charged with the Tucson shootings that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords severely wounded in January has been unable to tell his lawyers about the rampage, according to newly filed court documents that shed further light on his mental state.
Two Iraqis living in Kentucky have been charged with building roadside bombs when they lived in Iraq that targeted U.S. soldiers and with trying to provide weapons to al-Qaida fighters in Iraq once they got to the United States.
- Al-Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, according to an initial look at DVDs, computers and other documents seized at the raid on Osama bin Laden's home, NBC News reported Thursday.
The killing of Osama bin Laden was legally justified, and would have been even if the al-Qaida leader had made some sign that he wished to surrender, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.
- Medical records of Dr. Bruce Ivins, blamed by the FBI for the deadly 2001 anthrax mail attacks, "support the Justice Department's determination that he was responsible," a panel of behavioral experts and psychiatrists contended in a newly released report.
- Scientific evidence alone cannot lead to a definitive conclusion about the origins of the anthrax sent through the mail that infected 22 people, killing five of them, a panel of scientists asked to examine some of the FBI's work in investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks said Tuesday.
NEW YORK - An American who grew up in New York and became an operative at a terrorist training camp run by al-Qaida has been sentenced to 10 years probation after spending less than five years in prison, court records show.
- What did Attorney General Eric Holder mean when he said Monday that "there are other statutes, other tools that we have at our disposal," beyond the laws against espionage, that could be used to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange?
- Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens drew on his own thoughts about the Japanese in the aftermath of World War II to say that New Yorkers should be more tolerant of the plan to build an Islamic center near ground zero in New York.
- One of the nation's most respected Supreme Court scholars, Laurence Tribe of Harvard, suggested last year that President Obama not appoint Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court because she's not smart enough.
GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical makers, has agreed to pay $750 million to resolve Justice Department allegations that the company sold adulterated and improperly made drugs.
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