ATTORNEY GENERAL

The number of blacks and Hispanics registered to vote has dropped precipitously since the 2008 election, diminishing two bastions of Democratic support that could prove crucial in what promises to be a tight presidential race.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is getting election-year heat from two prominent Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Adis Medunjanin, a 28-year-old al-Qaida operative, was found guilty Tuesday of plotting a suicide-bomb attack in New York City subways in 2009. The plot has been described by officials as one of the most serious terrorist plots against America since 9/11.

The U.S. House of Representatives was introduced to a new bill on Friday, called the Social Networking Online Protection Act 2012, or SNOPA, which would ban employers from requiring job candidates to provide their username or password to Facebook, or any other social networking account for that matter.

The U.S. will seek out the death penalty against three Somalis if they are convicted of murder following the shooting deaths of four Americans aboard the hijacked Quest yacht last year.

A federal judge Monday blocked a Texas law that booted Planned Parenthood from receiving state funding under a women's health program.

Sen. Kelly Ayotte is next in line to potentially fill the position of Mitt Romney's vice presidential candidate.The Senator from New Hampshire, who endorsed Romney months before the primary there, joined GOP hopeful at a campaign event that was taking place in New Hampshire, the Granite state.

Greta van Susteren arriving with Lindsay Lohan? New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie sitting at the same table as Sofia Vergara? Only at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner.

The New York police have arrested a woman who admitted to faking cancer for years to gain sympathy gifts and money from family, friends and donors.

Ted Nugent made a deal with federal prosecutors on charges he illegally killed a bear in Alaska for his reality show and will now have to pay a $10,000 fine and make a public service announcement about responsible hunting that will appear on the show.

The first criminal charges stemming from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster have led to the arrest of a former BP engineer for obstruction of justice.

Brandon Jacobs, a former New York Giants running back, drove in a police-escorted caravan to the New Jersey playground, however, it has not been confirmed whether he was part of the group Jersey officials are investigating, his agent said on April 23.

The Secret Service concluded Thursday that conservative rocker Ted Nugent wasn't threatening President Barack Obama when he said at the NRA convention he would either be dead or in jail if Obama wins re-election.

Sprint Nextel Corp., which is the third-biggest mobile service provider in the U.S., has been sued by the state of New York for allegedly not collecting or paying millions of dollars in taxes. Though Sprint denies these accusations, the company stands to pay more than $300 million if the claims are proven true.

Right-winged rocker and Mitt Romney surrogate Ted Nugent likened himself to a ­black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally after appearing on a radio show defending his speech at an NRA convention, where he said he would either be dead or in jail, if Barack Obama gets re-elected president.

The American Legislative Exchange Council, an influential conservative organization that helps craft state-level legislation, announced on Tuesday that it would halt its work on a Public Safety and Elections Task Force that had formulated voter identification and gun laws.

Alabama's tough new immigration law has faced a torrent of criticism, and Alabama lawmakers are debating new legislation that supporters say will address those concerns.

Police have discovered the body of man who killed a New Hampshire police chief, Michael Maloney, who was only about two weeks away from retirement, when he was killed during a drug bust on Thursday.

Johnson & Johnson was fined $1.1 billion by an Arkansas judge for concealing the risks of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.

The United States Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Apple and a handful of major book publishers on Wednesday, alleging that the companies colluded to raise the price of e-books back in 2010. Amazon is the clear winner here, but it won't win out in the long-run.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is reviewing the controversial practice of unjustified NYPD stop-and-frisks. Keeping to his 2010 campaign promise, Schneiderman is currently deciding whether his office should issue a formal report on the practice.