Sari Horwitz

Congress and others want the supply restricted to curb abuse, but former DEA officials say it cannot be done without hurting legitimate pain patients.

The Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign will sue the state of Arizona over voter access to the polls after the state's presidential primary last month left thousands of residents waiting as long as five hours to vote.

As voters go to the polls on Super Tuesday, many will be casting ballots in states that have passed strict election laws that didn't exist during the last presidential race.

When Justice Antonin Scalia died 11 days ago at a West Texas ranch, he was among high-ranking members of an exclusive fraternity for hunters called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an Austrian society that dates back to the 1600s.

A Texas sheriff's department released an incident report late Tuesday that revealed new details of the discovery of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's body, as well as the name of the friend who accompanied him on the hunting trip and the items found inside the ranch bedroom where the justice was found.

As details of the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia trickled in Sunday, it appeared that the hours afterward were anything but orderly. Scalia was found dead in his room at a hunting resort by a ranch owner.

A former federal judge in Utah asked President Barack Obama Tuesday to "swiftly" give clemency to Weldon Angelos, a man he sentenced to 55 years in prison in connection with selling marijuana.

The 10 tribes will be the first of the nation's federally recognized 567 Indian tribes to be given training and computer equipment to obtain federal criminal records and other national data, as well as to submit information, without having to rely on local and state officials.

The Justice Department is set to release about 6,000 inmates early from prison - the largest ever one-time release of federal prisoners - in an effort to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders who received harsh sentences over the past three decades.

Before the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, Sen. Lisa Murkowski added an "Alaska exception" that exempted Alaska Native tribes from a rule allowing tribal courts to prosecute certain crimes. Now, under pressure from Alaska Natives, Murkowski is reversing her position.

A child’s murder last year in Kake -- and the 11-hour wait for troopers to arrive -- shows how help comes slowly and public safety is often in short supply in rural Alaska.

In one of the broadest studies of its kind, the Justice Department recently created a national task force to examine the violence and its impact on American Indian and Alaska Native children, part of an effort to reduce the number of Native American youth in the criminal justice system. The level of suicide has startled some task force officials, who consider the epidemic another outcome of what they see as pervasive despair.

The letter was written in Cyrillic script and passed by hand from Russia's security service to the FBI in Moscow on March 4, 2011. It barely covered a single page and contained a vague warning that a mother and her son, both Russian immigrants to the United States, had turned to radical Islam.

Although police feared he was heavily armed, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings had no firearms when he came under a barrage of police gunfire that struck the boat where he was hiding, according to multiple federal law enforcement officials.