The US Army Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled that the lawyers for US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl should be allowed access to classified materials. In an opinion made public Saturday, the three-judge court upheld the military...

The Supreme Court of North Korea on Friday sentenced US citizen, Kim Dong-chul, to 10 years in prison and hard labor on charges of subversion and espionage . Kim, 62, was a resident of Virginia before moving to China...

US Central Command released its final report Friday on the October airstrike that hit a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, finding that the strike was not a war crime. The investigation concluded...

The US Supreme Court on Friday refused to block Texas from enforcing its controversial voter identification law. Plaintiffs had filed an application with the Supreme Court last month, asking the court to vacate a...

The US Supreme Court approved a rule change Thursday that would permit US judges to issue search warrants granting access to computers in any jurisdiction. Chief Justice John Roberts sent the changes to the Federal Rules...

The US House of Representatives voted unanimously Wednesday to pass the Email Privacy Act" . The purpose of the bill is to protect the e-mail correspondence of American citizens, as under the current Electronic Communications Privacy...

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam on Wednesday announced that he signed into law a bill allowing therapists to refuse to treat patients based on religious objections, when that patient's "goals, outcomes or behaviors" conflict with...

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison on bank fraud charges relating to his payment of hush money to alleged sexual abuse victims. In Judge Thomas Durkin's federal district courtroom, Hastert admitted...

Residents of Flint, Michigan, represented by attorney Michael Pitt , filed an administrative complaint against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Monday for negligence in handling the Flint water crisis. The suit alleges that the EPA...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in McDonnell v. United States . The court is being asked to decide the meaning of "official action" under the fraud statutes used to convict former...