Chelsea Manning Set for Release After Seven Years in Prison an hour ago

Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier convicted of giving classified government materials to WikiLeaks, is due to be released from a Kansas military prison on Wednesday after serving seven years of her 35-year sentence. President Barack Obama granted Manning clemency in his final days in office in January.

DOJ: We Are Ready to Find and Prosecute Leakers

Department of Justice is making it clear they've had it internal leaks and are intent on prosecuting those who spilling secrets. Under intense pressure from the White House, the Justice Department is prepared to aggressively prosecute government officials who leak classified information.

Paul LePage says selling drugs used in fatal overdoses is manslaughter

Maine Gov. Paul LePage, center, speaks to reporters at a news conference accompanied by Kellyanne Conway, an advisor to President Trump, far left, and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, right, after a meeting to discuss the state's efforts to fight the opioid epidemic, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, at the State House in Augusta. Gov. Paul LePage kept his focus on fighting Maine's opiate addiction epidemic Tuesday when he said he supports a pending bill that would make dealing drugs that cause an overdose Class A manslaughter.

Clapper: U.S. is ‘under assault’ by Trump after firing

In this Monday, May 8, 2017, file photo, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing: "Russian Interference in the 2016 United States Election." Clapper on Sunday, May 14, described a U.S. government "under assault" after President Donald Trump's controversial decision to fire FBI director James Comey, as lawmakers urged the president to select a new FBI director free of any political stigma.

Face the Nation transcript, May 14, 2017: Schiff, Sasse, Gates

JOHN DICKERSON, HOST: Today on FACE THE NATION: The president fires the FBI director, and the White House struggles to get its story straight. For a president who made his reputation firing people on television... DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: You're fired.

Three brought to trial in Miami for conspiring to transport cocaine

A Colombian and two Ecuadoreans have appeared in Miami federal court accused of conspiring to transport cocaine on a boat intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard near the Galapagos Islands in South America. It's only the latest of many similar cases involving boats intercepted at sea, far from Miami, whose crew members are then brought here for trial.

FBI: Here’s what Tenn. teacher accused of abducting student did on the run

FBI: Here's what Tenn. teacher accused of abducting student did on the run Authorities say he cleared a lockbox, dismantled his in-car GPS system and bought a 2-seat kayak, Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2qDtzNu The search for a missing 15-year-old Tennessee girl ended Thursday after she was located in northern California, authorities said.

President Trumpa s ‘Animal House’ governance

Southey, a pacifist, wrote his anti-war poem long after the 1704 battle for which the Duke of Marlborough was awarded Blenheim Palace, where his great-great-great-great-great-great grandson Winston Churchill would be born. We, however, do not need to wait 94 years to doubt whether the Trump administration's action against "sanctuary cities" is much ado about not much.

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre’

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then director of the FBI, walked into a room. At the Friday morning round-table briefings in the attorney general's massive conference room, when Webster addressed the group, everyone leaned in.

Sentence reduced for prisoner on Texas death row 25 years

A man on Texas death row for nearly 25 years for the abduction, rape and slaying of a 20-year-old Houston bank teller is getting his sentence reduced to life in prison after state attorneys have agreed with the inmate's lawyers that he's mentally impaired and ineligible for execution under U.S. Supreme Court rulings. The Texas Attorney General's office and attorneys for 44-year-old condemned prisoner Robert James Campbell told a federal judge Wednesday evidence supports a finding that Campbell is intellectually disabled.

Timeline – U.S. FBI Director Comey’s year of controversy ends in firing

President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey followed a turbulent year for Comey in which he became embroiled in controversy over his handling of investigations involving both Trump and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Comey announced he had recommended no criminal charges filed against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified information while she was secretary of state but called her "extremely careless" for using a private email server.

Some names Trump might consider in picking a new FBI chief

With James Comey ousted as FBI director, President Donald Trump will have an opportunity to select a replacement for a new 10-year term. The FBI in the interim will be led by Comey's top deputy, Andrew McCabe.