Tags / Federal

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A federal judge sentenced an Illinois man to two and a half years in prison Monday for taping ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews in the nude... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 12, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Federal authorities are investigating a New Jersey man suspected of being an al Qaeda member and going on a deadly rampage at a hospital in Yemen... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 8, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the man charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day, has pleaded not guilty to six federal charges... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 7, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A California judge ruled Wednesday to allow cameras in a federal courtroom to document a challenge to Proposition 8, a measure banning same-sex marriage... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 4, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A security officer died after being shot today at a federal courthouse in Las Vegas, officials say. A deputy U.S. marshal was injured. The suspected shooter is dead... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 1, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A federal judge has dismissed all charges against security contractors from the former Blackwater in connection with the 2007 deaths of civilians in a Baghdad, Iraq, square... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 25, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff is being treated for "issues relating to dizziness and hypertension" at the medical facility of the prison where he is incarcerated, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Nov 18, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A federal advisory board's recommendation that women in their 40s should avoid routine mammograms is not government policy and has caused "a great deal of confusion," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 17, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A woman accused along with her then-husband of kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart in 2002 is set to plead guilty in federal court Tuesday under terms of a plea deal reached with prosecutors, according to court documents... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 17, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Wanda Barzee, accused with her hsuband of kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart, has struck a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, court records show... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 16, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A proposal to house federal prisoners, including some detainees from Guantanamo Bay, in a largely vacant maximum-security prison would be an economic boost to struggling northern Illinois, state officials said Sunday... Read More

ENTERTAINMENT / NEWS Fri Nov 13, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A German man is facing federal charges in the United States on suspicion of trying to extort money from supermodel Cindy Crawford and her husband, using a photograph of the couple's then-7-year-old daughter, court documents said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 27, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Federal aviation authorities are expected to suspend or revoke the licenses of the two Northwest Airline pilots involved in last week's overflight of the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, a federal official said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 26, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A terrorist suspect accused of two counts of plotting to bomb a skyscraper in Dallas, Texas, pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Oct 23, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Senate passed groundbreaking legislation Thursday that would make it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. The expanded federal hate crimes law now goes to President Obama, who has pledged to sign it. "Knowing that the president will sign it, unlike his predecessor, has made all the hard work this year to pass it worthwhile," said Judy Shepard, board president of the Matthew Shepard Foundation named for her gay son, who died after a severe beating in 1998... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 12, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A man accused of playing a role in the 1968 hijacking of a Pan Am flight from New York to Puerto Rico was captured Sunday, federal officials said. Luis Armando Pena Soltren, 66, surrendered to federal authorities at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after exiting a flight from Havana, Cuba, officials said. It's the same airport from which Pan Am Flight 281 took off more than 40 years ago... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 9, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Federal authorities are moving to rein in the man dubbed "America's Toughest Sheriff" after complaints that immigration raids by his deputies amounted to unconstitutional roundups of Latinos. Sheriff Joe Arpaio earned his nickname because many of his prisoners are housed in tents and forced to wear pink underwear, and he once boasted of feeding them on less than a dollar a day... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 22, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Investigators are looking for about a dozen more people in connection with a wide-ranging terror investigation that has already netted arrests in Colorado and New York City, a source familiar with the investigation said today. Federal agents arrested three men late Saturday in connection with what the Justice Department has said was a plot to detonate bombs in the United States... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 21, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Three men charged with lying to federal agents during a terrorism probe are scheduled to make court appearances Monday... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Sat Sep 19, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Government lawyers urged a federal court judge late Friday to reject a proposed settlement which would allow Google to digitally scan massive libraries of books and place them online... Read More