Dean Baquet

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that his government has new proposals designed to resolve an international dispute over his country's nuclear development program but declined to offer details. He...

Sen. Orrin Hatch, the powerful Republican from Utah who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, worked behind the scenes on behalf of the Bank of Credit and Commerce...

Four years ago, Gary Shapiro, Chicago`s top organized crime prosecutor, stood before a convention of investigative reporters and candidly admitted that he wasn`t even sure who ran the mob here....

Cook County Sheriff James O`Grady acknowledged Tuesday there is strong evidence that sheriff`s officers sabotaged murder investigations going back 15 years and said a special prosecutor may be the only...

The huge FBI investigation that has rocked the world`s largest futures exchanges is the most sophisticated undercover case ever, the result of 15 years of technological and legal advances that...

A federal grand jury charged 46 commodities traders Wednesday with systematically cheating hundreds of customers in Chicago`s futures markets in the first indictments from one of the most sweeping financial...

The FBI surveillance camera that spied on Chicago politicians and their pals in the Counsellors Row restaurant was part of an extensive investigation of possible organized crime ties to local...

It is already being described by attorneys as the ''White Collar Defense Lawyer Relief Act of 1989.'' Dozens of wealthy traders, fearful of being caught up in the FBI`s investigation...

The FBI launched the most sweeping investigation ever of Chicago`s futures exchanges after a Downstate agricultural conglomerate complained it was being victimized by corrupt traders, according to sources familiar with...

At least three suspects in a far-reaching investigation of alleged fraud at Chicago`s commodity exchanges agreed this week to wear concealed tape recorders supplied by the FBI and have been...