John Ashcroft

Attorneys for John Walker Lindh, the young American accused of fighting alongside the Taliban, said Tuesday that Lindh had been duct-taped naked to a stretcher, was showered with epithets by guards and suffered other harsh conditions at a Marine base in...

More than 20 people who hold licenses to transport hazardous materials are in federal custody and have become a new focus in the ever-broadening investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, federal law enforcement...

Federal officials widened their probe yesterday into the death of a Florida man from anthrax, acknowledging that they are considering bioterrorism after anthrax spores were found on the victim's computer keyboard and in a colleague. Attorney General John...

From a distinct writing style for the number "1" to a letter "S" that resembles the number "5," notes to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., NBC anchor Tom Brokaw and the New York Post are providing investigators with potentially important clues...

It has been a stain on the nation's conscience for five decades, a shameful mistake for which apologies have been made and reparations paid. In the courts of public opinion and history, the detention of more than 110,000 U.S. residents of Japanese...

Calls for a national system of identification cards sparked by the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have gained little traction, failing to win endorsements from the Bush administration or congressional leaders. Oracle Corp....

An NBC News employee in New York became yesterday the fourth American to be discovered with a rare anthrax bacterium, raising fears that media companies may have been targeted for a biological attack through the mail. The possibility that the anthrax...

LARRY KING, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you very much. Good evening, everybody, from this beautiful university, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, before a wonderful crowd of folks. There are four Democratic candidates, myself and two questioners...

A top deputy to Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft defended the Bush administration's aggressive war on terrorism Wednesday as both legal and justified, but he faced harsh criticism from lawmakers on some of its more controversial tools. Democrats and some...

Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft defended his aggressive and controversial counter-terrorism tactics in a Capitol Hill appearance Thursday but refused to support a change in law that would allow the FBI to determine if illegal immigrants and suspected...

In one of the largest desegregation settlements in U.S. history, the state of Mississippi agreed Monday to spend $500 million to improve its historically Black colleges and end claims of discrimination dating back a quarter of a century. The pact --...

LYON, France - Struggling to track down antiquities looted from Iraqi museums, art experts and law enforcement officials started work yesterday on providing police, traders and customs agents with a computerized list of missing treasures. The two-day...