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A federal appeals court has rejected an effort by the CIA to deny it has any documents about a U.S. drone program that has killed terrorists overseas, ruling that the agency is stretching the law too far and asking judges “to give their imprimatur to a fiction of deniability that no reasonable person would regard as plausible.”

For the past month, management at Carnival Cruise Line has been in a nearly constant state of damage control.

The Justice Department’s voting rights unit suffers from “deep ideological polarization” and a “disappointing lack of professionalism” including leaks of sensitive case information, harassment and mistreatment among colleagues who have political differences, department watchdogs concluded Tuesday.

The group of scientists working with NASA’s Curiosity rover made a big announcement during a press conference yesterday: at one point Mars had the right conditions to support living microbes.

In separate events, the Chinese and American governments called for standards regarding cyberattacks.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved tough new sanctions on North Korea just hours after Pyongyang threatened a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States and its allies.

A decade and $60 billion later what does the U.S. have to show for the reconstruction efforts in Iraq?

The most aggressive attempts to change federal gun law since 1994, when Congress passed a ban on assault-style weapons, come up for key votes today.

After much handwringing from GOP House members, the Democratic minority and some Republicans joined forces to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.