The Justice Dept.'s lawsuit accused Penguin of colluding with Apple to raise e-book prices.

President said in an interview that catching pot users was a low priority, but legalization advocates take little comfort from vagaries.

A Senate bill to protect the privacy of electronic communications won't keep federal agents from scanning email inboxes if they believe a crime has been committed.

The manslaughter charges brought against two relatively low-ranking BP rig workers in the deadly Gulf of Mexico disaster may be as far as federal prosecutors are willing to go.

Two and a half years after the blast, only two individuals have been charged directly in the tragedy, despite a string of government investigations.

The Justice Department alleged Friday that Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, was intimately involved in making an anticompetitive agreement that prohibited eBay and Intuit from hiring each other's employees.

Two BP employees charged in the deaths of 11 rig workers claim the Justice Department is trying to make them scapegoats for the disaster.

Attorneys for the highest-ranking BP employees aboard the Deepwater Horizon during the deadly explosion in April 2010 vowed to fight manslaughter charges against their clients.

The Obama administration told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it does not object to reopening a Christian college's challenge to President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul.

The Justice Department inspector general says the government is not keeping up with the caseload in federal immigration courts.