US to drop shooting case against Blackwater guard
AP - 4 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.

Levin: May be more troubling e-mails from Hasan
AP - 9 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday.

Couple pleads guilty in Cuban spying case
AP - 19 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a decades-long plot to spy for Cuba pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him behind bars for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom in six years.

FEC fines Fieger firm over campaign donations
AP - 1 day ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Michigan law firm has agreed to pay a $131,000 fine to resolve an investigation into donations to former Sen. John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign.

US charges firms defrauded deaf phone fund
AP - 1 day ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people with scheming to steal millions from a telephone program for the deaf.

FAA: Computers couldn't talk to each other
AP - 3 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal officials say flights were delayed across the country when a piece of communications equipment in Salt Lake City failed.

Go 'Rogue' in brief: Alaska, campaign, family, oil
AP - 3 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Not a speed reader? Want to get through Sarah Palin's new book in a flash?

Giuliani against trying Mohammed in civilian court
AP - 3 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that trying self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a federal civilian court in New York is unwise and unnecessary.

Afghan official said to take bribe for copper deal
AP - 3 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior Afghan official allegedly took a $20 million bribe to steer a copper mining project to a Chinese company, a glaring example of the claims of corruption clouding the Obama administration's deliberations over expanding the U.S. commitment in Afghanistan.

Detective says chief ordered mass arrests
AP - 3 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - A police detective alleges that former Washington Police Chief Charles Ramsey, despite past denials, ordered mass arrests of hundreds of demonstrators who were protesting annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in 2002.