The Justice Department fired a top national security prosecutor amid criticism from a right-wing commentator over his work ...

On Thursday morning, as thousands of federal employees stayed home and faced potential layoffs because of the government ...

For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the ...

Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to ...