The Justice Department said Friday that its investigators had found no misconduct in the decision by federal prosecutors to abandon the teen sex-crime case against disgraced former Veco Corp. Chairman Bill Allen, the government’s star witness in the failed prosecution of then-Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. » read more

The Justice Department's internal watchdog office has concluded that two federal prosecutors acted with reckless misconduct in the botched case against then-Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and should be suspended without pay but not fired. » read more

A State Department veteran of Cuba affairs, Ricardo Zuniga, will move over to White House to replace Dan Restrepo as the National Security Council's lead man on Latin America policy, the NSC has announced. » read more

A multibillion-dollar federal initiative to move low-income elderly and disabled people from long-term care facilities into the community has fallen far short of its goals, as many states have struggled to cobble together housing and other services. » read more

Students from around the country visited Washington to compete in the Cooking Up Change contest and ask Congress for additional funding for healthier food in schools. (Video by Elise Brown, Medill News Service) » read more

President Barack Obama told the graduating seniors of Joplin High School Monday night that they and their city had inspired the world. Speaking on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the mile-wide tornado that shredded their city, Obama said Joplin’s lesson is that lives are defined not by what happens to people, but by how they respond. » read more

Obie Anthony served hard time in California prisons for a crime he didn’t commit. » read more

President Barack Obama and NATO allies on Sunday charted an outwardly confident path to a postwar Afghanistan, their talk tempered by a potential split in the coalition and warnings that bloodshed will continue, and perhaps escalate, when allied troops withdraw. » read more

President Barack Obama declared “genuine progress” Saturday at the close of a summit with world leaders, saying they had agreed Europe’s debt crisis needs a jolt of growth, along with tough financial restraints. » read more

Four years ago, Afghan and U.S. officials touted Nangarhar as a model for Afghanistan’s other 33 provinces, bolstered by successes against the Taliban and the near-total eradication of opium poppies. » read more