In Texas, Duane Edward Buck was sentenced to death row after a psychologist said his race made him more likely to be violent.
The head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said he did not know about Operation Fast and Furious, a weapons tracking program that intentionally allowed drug cartels in Mexico to obtain firearms.
Sen. John McCain, R-AZ on Wednesday called water boarding torture and said the information that lead to Osama bin Laden did not come from detainees subjected to the interrogation technique.
The U.S. said on Thursday the killing of Osama Bin Laden was not an assassination and that the U.S. Navy SEALs who stormed his hideout and killed him were on a 'kill or capture' mission.
Two owners of a fraudulent Detroit-area medical clinic, Martin and Joaquin Tasis, and a man who helped them launder the proceeds of the fraud, Leoncio Alayon, were convicted on Friday by a federal jury in Detroit for their roles in a $9.1 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) said.
The killing of dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden has triggered a controversy - did it violate international law?
Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden briefed President Barack Obama in a private meeting on Friday, as the President told the troops involved job well done.
President Barack Obama has spoken in private with members of the U.S. team which raided and killed Osama bin Laden on Sunday after arriving earlier at Ft. Campbell in Kentucky.
Sony has been subpoenaed by the New York State Attorney General in the wake of a hacking attack exposing the account records of 100 million customers.
Attorney General Eric Holder has named Gary G. Grindler as the new chief of staff to the Attorney General.
This seminar will look at the experience of trying war criminals in Australia and at the state of Australian law on the subject.
Intel Corp on Friday said that it has named Douglas Melamed as senior vice president and general counsel.
U.S. authorities, as well as defense attorneys, need to ramp up their understanding of complex financial instruments as populist anger puts pressure on the government to bring more business fraud cases, a top U.S. defense lawyer said on Friday.