Five e-mails sent by the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court to the head of coal company Massey Energy show the justice was concerned with a Democratic primary...

The Supreme Court has rejected limits on Freedom of Information Act lawsuits that seek the same information as earlier legal actions.In a unanimous ruling, the justices say a lower court was wrong to conclude that a vintage airplane buff could not...

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain promise to review a key question that has roiled the government’s attitude toward releasing information to the public for three decades. Only Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton flatly promises to...

Despite ordering improvements more than two years ago, President Bush has barely made a dent in the huge backlog of unanswered requests under the Freedom of Information Act.At the same time, an audit by the National Security Archive found that Bush...

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick approved a secret agreement to keep confidential the intimate text messages between him and his former chief of staff in an $8.4 million whistle-blower settlement, newspapers reported Thursday.The Detroit Free Press and The...

WASHINGTON _ It can take months _ even years _ for families of troops who kill themselves in Iraq and Afghanistan to learn about the circumstances leading up to the death, including if there’s a suicide note.To obtain all investigative...

Lawmakers are scrambling to align House and Senate versions of a bill to tighten freedom of information laws in time to pass it this year.But with less than three weeks left before Congress recesses for the holidays, Democratic leaders say the...

The Automated targeting system (ATS) has been facing the furor of American communities since its announcement in public in November but now it has become entangled under legal complications. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a...