Correction: Military Sexual Assault story
In a story June 12, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was the only Republican on the Senate Armed Services ...

Is Big Data turning government into 'Big Brother'?
With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by ...

US phone-records monitoring ignites fresh debate
A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the U.S. government's surveillance of Americans' phone records — hundreds of millions of calls ...
AG: Won't prosecute reporters for doing their jobs
Attorney General Eric Holder denied Thursday that the Obama administration is killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes to avoid capturing them ...

Review chairman: Clinton didn't make Benghazi call
The seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his scathing assessment but ...
Senator asks what Boston suspect told FBI
The head of the Senate intelligence committee wants to know what the FBI learned when it interviewed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev ...

Erratic North Korea poses serious threat
An erratic North Korea, with its nuclear weapons and increasingly belligerent tone, poses a serious threat to the United States and East Asia nations, ...

Holder promises more openness on national security
Attorney General Eric Holder promised the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the Obama administration will share more information with ...
Senate committee postpones work on gun bills
The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed its work Thursday on writing bills curbing guns, probably until next week. The committee is considering ...
Father of Newtown victim: Ban assault weapons
Fighting tears, the father of one of the first graders slain in the Newtown, Conn. mass shooting is begging the Senate Judiciary Committee to ban ...
Senate panel likely to write gun bills next week
The Senate Judiciary Committee seems all but certain to start voting on an assault weapons ban and other gun curbs next week, Congress' first roll ...

NRA's LaPierre: wonk with million-dollar megaphone
Wayne LaPierre would just as soon read a book as fire a gun. That's right, the National Rifle Association's fire-breathing defender of gun rights is ...

Brennan's CIA bid chance to strike back at critics
A Senate hearing on John Brennan's nomination to head the CIA could lay bare some parts of the secret war against al-Qaida: lethal drone strikes from ...

Dems push assault weapons ban
Congressional Democrats unveiled legislation Thursday to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines like those used in the school massacre at ...
Democrats reintroduce assault weapons ban
Congressional Democrats are reintroducing legislation to ban assault weapons but the measure faces long odds even after last month's mass school ...

Lawmakers look to restrict gun magazine capacity
Lawmakers from both parties voiced their willingness Sunday to pursue some changes to the nation's gun laws, but adamant opposition from the National ...

Top US gun lobby wants armed officers in schools
Guns and police officers in all American schools are what's needed to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings," the powerful National Rifle ...