The Department of Justice is seeking information from payment-card processor First Data Corp. on merchants who may be using offshore accounts to hide income and avoid paying U.S. income taxes.

The Justice Department said Wednesday it would drop corruption charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens because prosecutors withheld evidence from the senator’s defense team during his trial.

News reports say the Justice Department will drop all charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens.

In some versions of a March 16 story about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, The Associated Press misidentified in a second reference the school where he spoke. The school is Washington and Lee University, not William and Lee.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a rare public speech told a crowd at a Virginia college that Americans today don’t make the sacrifices of the generations before them.

The Department of Justice is reviewing procedures and tactics used by a Southern California police department’s officers involved in use-of-force incidents

The European Court of Justice says Britain’s law requiring retirement at age 65 is legal under EU rules.

The Texas Ethics Commission has dismissed a complaint against a state Supreme Court justice over the use of campaign cash.

The Obama administration’s first budget seeks to fulfill his campaign promise to put 50,000 more police officers on the streets.

The Department of Justice on Monday asked a full appeals court to rule that the federal government has the power to hold sex offenders in custody indefinitely beyond the end of their prison terms.