Politics

The White House won't say if the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel produced a formal opinion endorsing President Barack Obama's authority to issue a recess appointment amidst a series of pro forma Senate sessions, Charlie Savage ...

Attorney General Eric Holder has grudgingly agreed to appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Feb. 2 to answer further questions about the Justice Department's handling of Operation Fast and Furious and the su...

Call it Osawatomie, Part II. President Barack Obama's decision to bypass the Senate and make a recess appointment on Wednesday of Richard Cordray to head up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau follows in the footsteps of President Teddy ...

The Justice Department has blocked South Carolina's new voter ID law from taking effect, claiming that the measure will put an unfair burden on minority voters. "However analyzed, the state’s data demonstrate that nonwhite voters are bo...

An individual at the Fort Leavenworth, Kan. military prison where Pfc. Bradley Manning has been held since April claimed that Manning said that he was supposed to be paid for the diplomatic cables and military reports he allegedly provided to Wiki...

Specialist Jihrleah Showman knew Pfc. Bradley Manning had serious mental health issues and didn't belong in the Army, even before  he suddenly hauled off and punched her in the intelligence center where they both worked in Iraq--an incident wh...

Former Army Lt. Dan Choi can return to the preliminary hearing for accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, despite Choi having been forcibly ejected Monday morning from the base in Maryland where the hearing is taking place. Choi said he w...

Former Army Lt. Dan Choi can return to the preliminary hearing for accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, despite Choi having been forcibly ejected Monday morning from the base in Maryland where the hearing is taking place. Choi said he w...

A retired Army lieutenant and prominent opponent of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Dan Choi, says he was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed Monday while trying to attend the hearing at a Maryland military base for accused W...

The hearing for an Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking thousands of military reports and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks is scheduled to hear classified evidence from prosecutors in a secret session Monday morning at Ft. Meade, Md. The presidi...

The U.S. handed over to the Iraqi government on Friday a Lebanese man accused of killing American soldiers in Iraq, Ali Musa Daqduq. The move by President Barack Obama helps ease the U.S. effort to withdraw from Iraq by the end of the year, b...

After more than 18 months, the veil on the military's case against Private Bradley Manning is set to be pulled back a bit Friday, as a public legal hearing gets underway into the evidence supporting charges that Manning leaked thousands of classifi...