U.S. Department of Justice

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department oversight. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Copyright 2009 AP News

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: Theresa Regan (2nd L), who lost her husband and FDNY firefighter Donald Regan at the South Tower of the World Trade Center during the 9/11 terrorists attacks, listens with her son Peter (L) and daughterJill (3rd L) during ...

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department oversight. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Copyright 2009 AP News

Same-sex couples say 'no legitimate' reason for excluding them from feds marriage definition Gay married couples suing the government over a federal law that doesn't recognize same-sex unions say there is "no legitimate or plausible" reason for having a federal definition of ...

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Securities and Exchange Commission Director of Enforcement Ron Khuzami attend a news conference at the Justice Department announcing the formation of a financial fraud task force November 17, 2009 in Washington, DC. The ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration created a new task force on Tuesday to crack down on financial fraud, an increasingly important political issue after a spike in mortgage scams and big Wall Street trading scandals. President Barack Obama signed an executive ...

Navajo AG to recommend special prosecutor in probe of tribal president, others An investigation into whether the leader of the country's largest American Indian reservation and others broke any laws in connection with two companies that operated on the Navajo Nation is ...

This undated image provided by the Department of Justice shows Edis Kayalar, who was charged Thursday Nov. 12, 2009 with trying to extort $100,000 from former supermodel Cindy Crawford and her entrepreneur husband Rande Gerber over a photo of their daughter bound ...

Federal subpoena shows how Justice Department overstepped its bounds Three days after George W. Bush left the White House, a federal prosecutor in Indiana issued a subpoena to an independent news Web site asking for a cache of data. U.S. Attorney Tim ...

Feds to investigate record low milk prices paid to NY farmers as retail price falls minimally A top antitrust investigator from the U.S. Justice Department is investigating why New York farmers are getting record low payments for milk and consumers are seeing ...