The Justice Department on Tuesday defended its decision to subpoena phone records from Associated Press bureaus and reporters, saying the requests were limited and necessary to investigate a leak of classified information regarding a severe threat to national security,
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of kidnapping and imprisoning three women for about a decade in his house in Ohio will plead not guilty to all charges
US. cities on Tuesday with Medicare fraud schemes that the government said totaled $223 million in false billings. More than 400 law enforcement officers including FBI agents made arrests of 89 suspects who posed as physicians and scammed the $590 billion healthcare program with phony or unnecessary bills. About one in four defendants was a doctor, a nurse, a physical therapist or some other medical professional.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his clinic agreed on Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal will face a life in prison. Gosnell will be spared a death sentence.
