A South Carolina agriculture official accused of abusing horses has resigned, an agency official said Friday.
Family members of a suspended South Carolina agriculture department official accused of abusing horses will be sent to Georgia to face animal cruelty charges there, authorities said Wednesday.
The Agriculture Department abruptly ordered congressional auditors to leave its Washington offices this week and told employees not to cooperate with them.
Foreign farm workers who come to the United States legally could be paid less under changes to government regulations aimed at getting companies to stop hiring illegal immigrants.
Oil prices are falling, which might be bad news for U.S. farmers and agribusiness firms because of their growing dependence on selling biofuels.
The state attorney general announced his resignation Friday, days after acknowledging an extramarital affair with a former employee who accused him of sexual harassment and professional misconduct.
Agriculture employers won't have to cast a wide net in recruiting temporary workers under a rules change proposed by the Labor Department.
Bush said it was unfair to ask Mukasey about interrogation techniques on which he has not been briefed. "He doesn't know whether we use that technique or not," the president told a group of reporters invited into the Oval Office
California's two Democratic senators, longtime advocates of environmental protection, public health and the state's farmers, would seem natural allies of a coalition that will make a last-ditch effort in the Senate next week to end an antiquated system of farm subsidies.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, ending a months-long standoff with critics over the botched handling of FBI terror investigations and the firings of U.S. attorneys, officials said Monday.
RENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey attorney general has asked a dozen Internet social networking sites to find out whether convicted New Jersey sex offenders have created profiles on their sites.
Arlen Specter takes stands like an alcoholic father forbidding his kids from having a drink. Heh.
All of a sudden, Gonzales, the man who last week said he would take "responsibility" for the disaster at the Justice Department, now is saying that "You have to remember, at the end of the day, the recommendations reflected the views of the deputy attorney general.
Goodling's lawyer has said that, with an immunity deal, she would cooperate and testify honestly. Here is a question that has been bugging me for weeks: If she is immune from prosecution, could she not take the blame for everything?
Today's attorney general breezes into the chamber with the certain knowledge that having bottomed out in April, he has nothing left to prove.
After refusing to pull a Florida this attorney says he was forced to resign.
The practice has come under scrutiny in Congress because of claims by the Justice Department that it fired New Mexico prosecutor David C. Iglesias in part because he was absent from the job too much.
James Comey, former number two at the DoJ, will be testifying before the House Judiciary Committee next Thursday.
Q Was the President disappointed in the testimony? MS. PERINO: Is the President? No ok Q Dana, has the President spoken with Paul Wolfowitz over the last couple weeks?
Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales today cut short a press conference about Internet safety, leaving the room at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago when reporters questioned him about the firings of U.S. attorneys.
Is Tony Snow... a) confused or misunderstanding? b) lying (or was lied to by the President and is merely repeating the lie) c) correct and the President has ceded its' responsibility to the AG d) correct and The President just doesn't remember ever talking about the 8 attor …
Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution states: "the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."
In a motion filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is attempting to force Google to comply with a previously issued subpoena asking for data on a time frame of search results and a random sampling of URLs.