The Obama administration is moving forward on two fronts in response to the failed bombing on a Detroit-bound airliner.
Northrop Grumman Corp. is likely to miss next summer's deadline — already extended once — for replacing and consolidating Virginia's far-flung computer systems, the General Assembly's watchdog agency reported Monday.
Five young American men under investigation in Pakistan for alleged terror links had established contact with a Taliban recruiter and have told FBI officials they were on a mission to be martyred, a Pakistani police official said.
FBI agents have questioned some of the young Americans arrested in Pakistan as U.S. investigators gather evidence that could lead to a conspiracy charge against them, an American official and another person familiar with the case said Friday.
NEW YORK — The builders needed concrete. The strength test results they got were anything but, prosecutors said Wednesday at a racketeering trial surrounding concrete tests for such landmarks as the new Yankee Stadium and ground zero's tallest skyscraper.
Part American and part Pakistani, the Chicago man accused of conspiring in the bloody terrorist attacks in Mumbai has followed a twisted trail through two different worlds.
Virginia regulators said Thursday they are investigating the fund-raising practices of an enterprise run by Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the couple that got into a White House state dinner without an invitation.
An investment executive who was linked to a corruption scandal at New York state's public pension fund has agreed to pay $20 million in restitution.
The FBI is sending a team to Pakistan and India as part of an inquiry into an American man accused of sizing up targets ahead of last year's deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India's financial capital.
The economic downturn hasn't stopped some local governments in New Jersey from paying out generous bonuses and severance packages to employees, including six-figure cash payouts to workers in fiscally distressed cities and towns.
China is set to launch its second lunar probe next October in preparation for an unmanned moon landing by the end of 2012, space program officials were quoted Friday as saying.
A lawyer who is representing a Michigan money manager accused of fraud has his own legal problems.
A new development related to the government's investigation of possible insider trading at a major hedge fund has raised questions in the case and caught the attention of two key senators.
California is investigating several companies suspected of bilking churches nationwide of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent computer leasing schemes, authorities said Friday.
Jury selection has started for the racketeering trial of a company accused of doctoring concrete strength tests for ground zero's signature tower, the new Yankee Stadium and other major New York City-area buildings.
Prosecutors say the owner of a storied New York City bagel business shortchanged the state out of a lot of dough by cheating on taxes.
The charges shook the foundation of the city's construction industry: Prosecutors said concrete strength tests had been faked for ground zero's centerpiece tower, the new Yankee Stadium and dozens of other projects.
The Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed former state Investment Officer Gary Bland to testify as part of an investigation into public investment funds in New Mexico, according to documents released Tuesday.
An April trial date has been set for a Nebraska man accused of luring elderly investors under false pretenses and using some of their money to buy luxury items.
A law enforcement official says a terrorism task force did not refer early information about the Fort Hood shooting suspect to superiors because they concluded he wasn't linked to terrorism.
State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the organization's national headquarters was based in New Orleans.
North Carolina elections officials penalized former Gov. Mike Easley's campaign $100,000 Friday for not reporting flights provided by a political ally and asked prosecutors to investigate whether he or others broke laws by trying to hide them or other expenses.
New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli must return $500,000 in public pension benefits and credits to private lawyers who received them for doing part-time jobs, according to recent lower court decisions.
A politically connected financial firm and two of its executives were indicted Thursday for what prosecutors say was a bid-rigging scheme in the municipal bond business.
Gen-Probe Inc. said Thursday the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency approval to its diagnostic test for the 2009 swine flu.
NASA has named low-cost missions to Venus, the moon and an asteroid on a shortlist to become its latest space adventure, as the US agency faces astronomical political pressure to cut costs.
OTTAWA — Canada's military police complaints commission could investigate the Afghan prisoner abuse case revealed by Gen. Walter Natynczyk, the commission counsel said Thursday (By Juliet O'Neill)
I think it is incredibly hypocritical that Sarah Palin is stating publicly that President Obama's birth certificate should be probed and questioned.
Gov. Mark Sanford said a state ethics panel risks the impartiality of its report if it is given to lawmakers early — and threatened legal action to prevent its release.
Seven former CIA chiefs on Friday urged the Obama administration to halt its investigation of the agency's interrogation methods, predicting the latest inquiry would only foster "an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy."
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The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office yesterday launched a criminal probe into ACORN, while the Senate overwhelmingly voted to ban federal funding for the nonprofit group after two New York workers were caught on video aiding a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute.
A key figure in ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's federal corruption case died Saturday of an apparent "aspirin overdose," a law enforcement source told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Former Attorney General Breaks From Cheney, Says Holder is Doing the Right Thing By Asserting His Independence From White House in Getting to the Bottom of CIA 'Torturegate' Scandal 'Based on the Facts' -- But Less Than a Month Ago, He Opposed the Investigation as 'Having a Chill …
Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday said the Obama administration should be debriefing CIA interrogators about keeping the country safe rather than trying to punish them for doing their jobs.
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U.S. regulators are set to probe the country's wireless industry for anti-competitive practices in a review that may touch on contract lengths, early termination charges, and exclusive handset deals.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS experts are now trying to determine if camera phone images relating to an alleged sex act involving infants were ever transmitted.
A YouTube video showing a 7-year-old boy at the wheel of a sport utility vehicle -- with his family cheering him on -- has prompted an investigation by Quebec police and family services, police said on Tuesday.
CIA Director Leon Panetta was told of the program's existence on June 23, four months after he took over the agency. Within 24 hours, he had canceled it and briefed the congressional oversight committees of its existence.
Taiwan has launched an investigation into US computer giant Dell over online pricing errors which could be in violation of the island's fair trade law, officials said Tuesday.
"The Army said the deadliest error occurred Jan. 6 when Israeli soldiers killed 21 civilians who were taking cover in a house. The soldiers mistook the house for a nearby weapons storehouse."
Police and state investigators dispatched by the Nassau district attorney's office Friday found that six out of 10 bus drivers at the Hicksville school where a child choked last week were not licensed to drive buses, a spokesman for the office said.
A sleek satellite that is set to make the most detailed map of the Earth's gravity took to the skies on Tuesday. The probe is expected to make important contributions to ocean current measurements and climate models.
Earlier this week, Sen. Patrick Leahy called for a special commission to investigate possible government wrongdoing by the Bush administration in its anti-terror policies, as well as possible attempts to politicize the Justice Department through the firing of U.S.
Count One From in or about 2002 to the present, in Cook County, in the Northern District of Illinois, defendants did, conspire with each other and with others to devise and participate in a scheme to defraud the State of Illinois and the people of the State of Illinois of the h …
India is celebrating the arrival of its Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft at the Moon. An 817-second burn from the probe's engine on Saturday slowed Chandrayaan sufficiently for it to be captured by the lunar body's gravity.
A report has cleared Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of ethics violations in the firing of her public safety commissioner.
SONORA, CA - The California Republican party is asking the secretary of state to investigate an organized voting campaign involving developmentally disabled adults in Tuolumne County.
On Wednesday, the unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft will blast off from a launch pad in Andhra Pradesh to embark on a two-year mission of exploration.