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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is considering whether North Carolina's new law on gay and transgender rights makes the state ineligible for billions of dollars in federal aid for schools, [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- The brothers who carried out suicide bombings in Brussels last week had long, violent criminal records and had been regarded internationally as potential terrorists. But [...]

Byline: SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, MATT APUZZO and KATHARINE Q. SEELYE WASHINGTON -- Twice a day, for breakfast and lunch, Benjamin R. Civiletti, attorney general to President Jimmy Carter, invited his [...]

WASHINGTON -- The brothers who carried out suicide bombings in Brussels last week had long, violent criminal records and had been regarded internationally as potential terrorists. But in San Bernardino, [...]

WASHINGTON -- Twice a day, for breakfast and lunch, Benjamin R. Civiletti, attorney general to President Jimmy Carter, invited his seven special assistants -- mostly young graduates of the nation's [...]

Byline: KATIE BENNER and MATT APUZZO RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The Justice Department has said that it might no longer need Apple's assistance in opening an iPhone used by a gunman [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDRIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The Justice Department said on Monday that it might no longer need Apple's assistance in opening an iPhone used by a gunman in the San Bernardino, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has closed its espionage investigation into the former American diplomat Robin L. Raphel and will file no charges, her lawyer said on Monday, ending a [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on Monday called on state judges across the country to root out unconstitutional policies that have locked poor people in a cycle of fines, debt [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- While the Justice Department wages a public fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone, government officials are privately debating how to resolve a [...]

WASHINGTON -- While the Justice Department wages a public fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone, government officials are privately debating how to resolve a prolonged standoff with [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- A former aide to Hillary Clinton has turned over to the F.B.I. computer security logs from Mrs. Clinton's private server, records that showed no evidence [...]

WASHINGTON -- A former aide to Hillary Clinton has turned over to the F.B.I. computer security logs from Mrs. Clinton's private server, records that showed no evidence of foreign hacking, [...]

WASHINGTON -- As Hillary Clinton moves toward the Democratic presidential nomination, she faces legal hurdles from her use of a private computer server as secretary of state that could jar [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO and KATIE BENNER WASHINGTON -- Apple engineers have begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone [...]

Obama administration officials met with executives of major technology and entertainment companies in Washington on Wednesday to discuss combating the activities of violent extremists online, according to industry and government [...]

WASHINGTON -- Apple engineers have begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone using methods similar to those now [...]

Byline: KATIE BENNER and MATT APUZZO SAN FRANCISCO -- In the months leading up to Apple's standoff with the United States government over the unlocking of an iPhone, the technology [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSAN FRANCISCO -- In the months leading up to Apple's standoff with the United States government over the unlocking of an iPhone, the technology industry braced itself for a [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO, JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON -- Time and again after the introduction of the iPhone nearly a decade ago, the Justice Department asked Apple for help [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department, frustrated by its inability to unlock the iPhone of one of the attackers in the San Bernardino killings, demanded on Friday that a judge immediately [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- As a legal matter, the showdown between the Obama administration and Apple touched off Tuesday by the ruling of a federal magistrate judge in California [...]

WASHINGTON -- Time and again after the introduction of the iPhone nearly a decade ago, the Justice Department asked Apple for help opening a locked phone. And nearly without fail, [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- As a legal matter, the showdown between the Obama administration and Apple that was touched off Tuesday by the ruling of a federal magistrate judge [...]

WASHINGTON -- As a legal matter, the showdown between the Obama administration and Apple touched off Tuesday by the ruling of a federal magistrate judge in California turns on an [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Justice filed a civil rights lawsuit against Ferguson, Mo., on Wednesday, less than a day after the city rejected an agreement to overhaul its beleaguered [...]

WASHINGTON -- An agreement between federal officials and leaders in Ferguson, Mo., released Wednesday seeks to overhaul the city's beleaguered justice system. It calls for ending unlawful arrests, ensuring that [...]

Byline: MARK MAZZETTI and MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- When President Obama secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to begin arming Syria's embattled rebels in 2013, the spy agency knew it [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- When President Obama secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to begin arming Syria's embattled rebels in 2013, the spy agency knew it would have a willing partner [...]

The mayor will appoint an independent civilian to monitor the New York Police Department's counterterrorism activities, lawyers said in court documents on Thursday as they moved to settle a pair [...]

WASHINGTON -- Officials in Ferguson, Mo., have reached the outlines of a deal with the Justice Department that would force changes to the city's Police Department and head off a [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and JULIA PRESTON WASHINGTON -- Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband carried out the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., passed three background checks by [...]

EDITORS' NOTE APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband carried out the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., passed three background checks by American immigration officials as she moved to [...]

Byline: SCOTT SHANE, MATT APUZZO and ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON -- When a lonely Virginia teenager named Ali Amin got curious about the Islamic State last year and went online to [...]

WASHINGTON -- When a lonely Virginia teenager named Ali Amin got curious about the Islamic State last year and went online to learn more, he found a virtual community awaiting. [...]

Byline: REBECCA R. RUIZ, MATT APUZZO, SAM BORDEN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM WASHINGTON -- The investigation into corruption and bribery in soccer that in May rocked FIFA, the sport's multibillion-dollar [...]

Federal agents boarded an international cruise ship as it docked in Florida before dawn on Friday and arrested one of the world soccer officials who had yet to be captured [...]

Byline: REBECCA R. RUIZ, MATT APUZZO and SAM BORDEN ZURICH -- The Swiss authorities began a new series of predawn arrests Thursday in the broad investigation, led by United States [...]

WASHINGTON -- The investigation into corruption and bribery in soccer that in May rocked FIFA, the sport's multibillion-dollar governing body, metastasized on Thursday when United States officials unsealed a new [...]

ZURICH -- Swiss authorities began a new series of pre-dawn arrests Thursday in the broad investigation, led by United States officials, into corruption in international soccer. More than a dozen [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO and ERIC LIPTON WASHINGTON -- For more than a year, a rare coalition of liberal groups and libertarian-minded conservatives has joined the Obama administration in pushing for [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- For more than a year, a rare coalition of liberal groups and libertarian-minded conservatives has joined the Obama administration in pushing for the most significant liberalization of [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO, MARK MAZZETTI and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON -- When Islamic State fighters overran a string of Iraqi cities last year, analysts at United States Central Command wrote [...]

WASHINGTON -- When Islamic State fighters overran a string of Iraqi cities last year, analysts at United States Central Command wrote classified assessments for military intelligence officials and policy makers [...]

WASHINGTON -- At least three dozen people in the United States suspected of ties to the Islamic State were under heavy electronic or physical surveillance even before the Paris attacks, [...]

Byline: MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, ERIC SCHMITT and MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- At least three dozen people in the United States suspected of ties to the Islamic State were under heavy [...]

Byline: MARK MAZZETTI and MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- A United States Senate security officer stepped out of the December chill last year and delivered envelopes marked 'Top Secret' to the [...]

WASHINGTON -- A Senate security officer stepped out of the December chill last year and delivered envelopes marked ''Top Secret'' to the Pentagon, the C.I.A., the State Department and the [...]

INKSTER, Mich. -- When William T. Riley III became the police chief of this small city west of Detroit this summer, he found a department that bore little resemblance to [...]

WASHINGTON -- The White House said Monday that it did not agree with the assertion last week by the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, that additional scrutiny of law enforcement [...]