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Two committees are investigating information about Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is accused in the Fort Hood shooting spree that killed 13 soldiers.

A Russian businessman who investigators say is the world's largest arms trafficker used secret corporations formed in Delaware and other states to finance his activities.

The U.S. Senate voted unanimously tonight to extend unemployment benefits by as much as 14 weeks to out-of-work Americans, including about 100,000 Michiganders who have exhausted their jobless benefits or would do so by year's end.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Thursday tackled the problems posed by shell companies, or companies with hidden ownership.

Lax state laws allow arms traffickers, drug kingpins and money launderers to use U.S. companies to hide their illicit activities from investigators, government officials said Thursday.

The killing of five British troops by a rogue Afghan policeman underlines concerns about training and discipline within the ranks and possible insurgent infiltration of a police force that the U.S. hopes will be its ticket out of Afghanistan someday.

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., have filed new legislation to crack down on offshore tax evasion, and unlike an earlier bill, their version won't include a so-called blacklist of countries that are considered tax havens.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney went "out of bounds" when he attacked President Barack Obama for "dithering" on Afghanistan, Sen.

President Obama was set to sign legislation Oct. 28 that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to federal hate crimes protections.

President Barack Obama brought back Bush-era military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday by signing new rules into law that will give detainees stronger legal rights in court.Obama approved the new rules - most of which he proposed in May - as part of a $680 billion defense policy bill that cut some pricey and overlapping ...

People dread getting calls from bill collectors. And it's not always because they can't pay.

ST. LOUIS, October 28, 2009-Today President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.

President Barack Obama reaches to shakes hands with Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, left, after signing the National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.

The cars streamed into Najaf over the last two days as families buried loved ones killed in Sunday's double bombing in Baghdad.

Key lawmakers unveiled a bill Tuesday aiming to crack down on wealthy tax dodgers hiding money overseas.

A key US Senate panel will hold a hearing next month to look at a possible repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on gays serving openly in the US military, the committee's chairman said Friday.

The National Institute of Military Justice and the American Bar Associationa s Military Law Committee just released a report recommending the U.S. military repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

By a vote of 68-29 the Senate agreed Wednesday to include hate crime language in the Defense Appropriations bill for FY2010.

The hate crimes provision, which creates additional penalties for violent crimes motivated by the victim's gender, sexual orientation or disability, had been championed for the last decade the late Sen.

Senator Carl Levin , Chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, defended his reasoning for the inclusion of Federal hate crimes legislation in the Defense Authorization bill.