The American Civil Liberties Union is vowing to file constitutional challenges to several policies of Donald Trump if he should win election and implement them.
A Washington, D.C., ethics committee has recommended public censure for a former Justice Department lawyer who leaked information about the government’s warrantless wiretap program.
An inmate in Toledo, Ohio, awaiting trial on a charge of providing material support to terrorists has been charged with plotting the contract killing of the federal judge overseeing his…
The gunman who opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday, killing 49 people and injuring 53 others, was able to buy an assault weapon and handgun in…
In a mixed victory over free-speech rights, a former chief prosecutor at the military tribunals at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has agreed to accept a…
Experts are skeptical of a start-up company’s claims that its technology can identify terrorists and other criminals by analyzing clues in their faces.
The company, Faception, says its software detects…
Lawyers for admitted Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed say the military judge overseeing the case issued a secret order authorizing destruction of evidence that would have helped the defense.
A service that mined tweets to quickly alert U.S. intelligence agencies about the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris won’t be providing that kind of information in the future.
A federal judge in Spokane, Washington, has indicated he will allow a lawsuit filed against two psychologists accused of helping design a CIA interrogation program that included waterboarding.
A federal appeals court has ruled the CIA doesn’t have to release legal memos on targeted drone killings and doesn’t have to disclose records identifying those who were targeted or…
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a law that allows victims of Iran-sponsored terrorism to satisfy unpaid judgments with assets held in New York by the Iran’s central bank.
A trial in an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan was dramatically halted on Monday after the judge asked a police officer how an explosive—that authorities say they took from the defendant—worked.