Politics

Just as President Barack Obama gave the green light Monday to ramp up fundraising for a Super PAC supporting his re-election bid, he also gave conditional approval to a constitutional amendment that would beef up Congress's ability to control the f...

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich has dropped his legal quest for a slot on the Republican presidential primary ballot in Virginia next month. On Saturday, lawyers for Gingrich filed paperwork giving up the fight with a federal district court in...

The Justice Department's investigation into the deaths of two detainees in Central Intelligence Agency custody should conclude soon, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday. Holder made no mention of proceeding with prosecut...

The Justice Department's investigation into the deaths of two detainees in Central Intelligence Agency custody should conclude soon, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday. Holder made no mention of proceeding with prosecut...

Another heir to the Getty oil fortune, Anna Getty, has cut permanent ties to the U.S. and may have renounced her citizenship, according to a government report published Thursday. As the U.S. presidential campaign is rife with debate over issues of tax...

A Memphis newspaper won a round Tuesday in its battle for access to the FBI's files on a famous civil rights era photographer who reportedly spied on top civil rights leaders for the agency in the 1960s. A federal judge also gave the Justice Depar...

In an effort to dramatize the threat of cyberterrorism and, perhaps, grab the attention of the White House, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) spun a gloomy hypothetical Tuesday about President Barack Obama’s speech this summer to the Democratic Natio...

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein is steamed with the Obama administration over its public comments about the ostensibly classified armed drone operation that the Central Intelligence Agency runs in Pakistan. Feinstein didn't...

A new report from the Democratic staff of the main House committee investigating Operation Fast and Furious stresses that federal law enforcement officials in Arizona relied on the investigative tactic of gunwalking as far back as 2006 and used it in t...

A federal appeals court has rejected the appeal of a University of Tennessee college student who was convicted of hacking into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account during the 2008 campaign. Lawyers for ...

An NBC-owned TV station is reportedly continuing to air a Mitt Romney ad that the network has asked Romney to pull, prompting charges of hypocrisy. But the situation isn't particularly surprising since broadcasters are legally required to run...

The White House's drive to embrace new media and technology will achieve nirvana next week as President Barack Obama participates in what his aides are proudly billing as the "first completely-virtual interview from the White House."...