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The Justice Department and tobacco industry representatives have begun settlement negotiations in the government's racketeering case against the industry, an anonymous source involved with the case said Tuesday. The two sides have met at least once...

FBI agents at Guantanamo Bay concluded the military's aggressive interrogation policy yielded intelligence that was "suspect at best," according to a newly released FBI document . The report on Gitmo interrogations comes from an...

President Bush juggled his weekend schedule to return to Washington Sunday to be ready to sign proposed legislation that would send Terri Schiavo's case to the federal courts . Previously, urgent legislation passed while the president...

Retail giant Wal-Mart agreed Friday to pay $11 million to settle US Department of Justice allegations that it had employed hundreds of illegal immigrants to perform janitorial services in 60 stores across the country. The...

The US Justice Department announced Wednesday it will award $100,000 to the National Center for State Courts to review judicial safety and security. The review will evaluate security-conscious designs for new courthouses, staff training for security equipment, emergency preparedness...

Surrounded by heavy security, the 275 Iraqis elected in January to the nation's first independent parliament in 50 years were sworn in Wednesday, even as several bombs were detonated in the area, attempting to...

The US Department of Justice announced Friday that the government will pay over $25 million to Holocaust survivors, settling a long term class action suit over the US Army's pilfering of the Hungarian Gold Train [Presidential Committee...

Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA Patriot Act, US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, released March 11, 2005 [describing allegations of mistreatment of Muslim prisoners at several US federal prisons and documented...

A US Department of Justice report released Friday described allegations of mistreatment of Muslim prisoners at several US federal prisons and documented one instance where a warden and guards discriminated and retaliated against Muslim inmates who had complained. The...

The Pentagon wants to cut in half the number of detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay by tranferring many prisoners out of the country to facilities in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen, according to a report published in Friday's...