Years after thousands of veterans learned they may have been exposed to infections at government-run hospitals, many are still mired in legal battles seeking compensation from the Department of

One by one, courts around the country are deciding it's no longer slander to falsely call someone gay — a measure of how attitudes are changing in the era of same-sex marriage and gays in

A divided federal appeals court Friday threw out a lawsuit by the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay against his former boss at the Library of Congress, who fired the ex-prosecutor