Updated: A 21-year-old white man accused of fatally shooting nine people Wednesday night during a bible-study meeting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, has been captured.
A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed on behalf of immigrants illegally in the United States who were rounded up and detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, though…
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the conspiracy conviction of Osama bin Laden’s spokesperson in an opinion that narrowed the types of crimes that can be tried by military…
The Justice Department secretly approved searches of Internet data originating abroad for evidence of hacking by foreign governments, according to new documents from Edward Snowden.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law the new USA Freedom Act, which bans bulk collection of U.S. cellphone and Internet data by the National Security Agency.
Three key provisions of the Patriot Act expired today, forcing terrorism investigators to use more traditional techniques or to rely on a grandfather clause for investigations already underway.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to end mass collection of phone data by the National Security Agency, while still allowing for searches of the data…
A psychiatrist testifying in the trial of alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tuesday said the defendant’s father reported being tortured in a Russian camp during the Chechen wars and…
Just as the U.S. government paid reparations to citizens of Japanese descent interned during World War II, it should now consider doing so to some individuals held at the U.S…
Updated: A Turkish prosecutor died after two gunmen disguised as lawyers took him hostage in an Istanbul courthouse on Tuesday. The members of a terrorist group threatened to kill…
Captured by the Taliban in 2009 after disappearing from his post in Afghanistan, an American soldier was then rescued last year in a controversial prisoner exchange. Now he has been…