From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder firmly rejected criticism Wednesday of the planned New York trial of the professed Sept. 11 mastermind and predicted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be exposed as a murderous coward, convicted and executed. ...more

November 19, 2009

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four co-conspirators will be tried in a Manhattan federal courthouse, the Justice Department announced Friday, the most concrete demonstration yet of the Obama administration's desire to reassert the primacy of the criminal justice system in responding to terrorist acts. ...more

November 14, 2009

To many, it felt exquisitely right: This is where it began. This is where it must end. ...more

November 14, 2009

A modern-day tea party protest will take place today in the heart of downtown. No one will bust open crates of Earl Grey and toss it into the already tea-colored bay, but a slate of speakers will decry the federal stimulus packages. ...more

April 15, 2009

Anti-stimulus protesters plan to make their voices heard on tax day. ...more

April 14, 2009

A jury found Puerto Rico's former governor not guilty today on all nine counts of conspiracy, money laundering and lying to the FBI, concluding his monthlong corruption trial. ...more

March 20, 2009

On top of the world a few months ago, Brazilian race driver and "Dancing With The Stars" champ Helio Castroneves will face career ruin and possible jail time if he is convicted at a federal tax evasion trial that begins Monday with jury selection in Miami. ...more

March 2, 2009

There were no tomahawk-wielding Colonials dumping boxes of English tea into the Hillsborough River and, fortunately, nobody was tarred and feathered. ...more

February 28, 2009

There were no tomahawk-wielding Colonials dumping boxes of English tea into the Hillsborough River, and fortunately, nobody was tarred and feathered. ...more

February 27, 2009

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson toured the Sam M. Gibbons Federal Courthouse on Monday and the experience literally took his breath away. ...more

February 20, 2009