John Ashcroft

Attorney General John Ashcroft on Monday named veteran mediator Kenneth R. Feinberg as special master of the government's Sept. 11 compensation fund, making him the sole arbiter of how much money thousands of victims of the terrorist attacks will receive....

Taking his anti-terror campaign across the border, Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft signed an agreement in Ottawa on Monday intended to keep terrorists and their supporters out of the United States and Canada, while keeping $1.3 billion a day in trade flowing...

Fearing terrorist air attacks, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is urging the federal government to impose no-fly zones around nuclear facilities across the country. But Illinois officials, airport managers and pilots from his home state, which has more nuclear...

Federal authorities are holding 603 people in custody as a result of the FBI's sweeping terrorism investigation, including members of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization, Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft said Tuesday. Ashcroft provided the first detailed...

The former army scientist at the center of the FBI's anthrax investigation was fired Tuesday from a government-funded teaching job at Louisiana State University. Steven Hatfill became the public face of the FBI's investigation into last fall's anthrax...

An elderly pensioner hobbles past, followed by a scruffy teenager riding a bicycle and drinking a bottle of beer, and a young girl skipping down the sidewalk on a glorious late summer's afternoon. None pays the least attention to the utterly...

WASHINGTON - Federal law enforcement agencies are taking a major role in the investigation into the shootings of eight people in the Washington area as local police scramble to track down more than a thousand leads. Using the federal Serial Killer...

NEW YORK - WorldCom Inc., which sought bankruptcy protection last month after disclosing that it had improperly accounted for $3.8 billion in recent expenses, said last night that it had uncovered $3.3 billion in additional accounting irregularities...

Faye Yager reaches for a bottle of wine. She's breaking out the ``good stuff'' tonight, and damned if everybody here don't deserve it. Honey, she's been plotting this wedding all week, and there isn't a single detail she's missed. ``When it's your...

Federal authorities said Thursday that the Army veteran and Jamaican teen-ager accused in the sniper slayings that terrorized the Washington area for weeks will stand trial first in Virginia, bypassing the state most closely identified with the attacks...

BOWIE - The sniper who shot seven people late last week trained his sights on children yesterday, police say, critically wounding a 13-year-old boy outside a Prince George's County school and propelling area residents - already highly anxious - to a whole...

In "Constantine," Keanu Reeves plays a kind of INS agent on the border between this mortal coil and the eternal hereafter. Part detective, part border cop, part exorcist, John Constantine (no relation to the emperor who secured the power of the...