Ellen Nakashima

The U.S. government plans to soon begin collecting DNA samples from all citizens arrested for federal crimes and many illegal immigrants detained by U.S. authorities, adding genetic identifiers from more...

A government laptop computer containing sensitive medical information on 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study was stolen in February. The information was not encrypted, in violation...

An effort to modernize federal laws on anti-terrorism surveillance erupted into partisan brawling Friday, with Democrats accusing the White House of breaking a deal on proposed eavesdropping legislation and President...

UN Special Envoy Razali Ismail said Friday that he believed further mediation coupled with international pressure could win release of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and lead to...

Captured Al Qaeda operations chief Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has told interrogators that accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui was not part of the Sept. 11 hijack group, but was in the United...

A letter apparently mailed to an address near the Bronx home of anthrax victim Kathy Nguyen passed through the same New Jersey postal sorting machine within seconds of the anthrax-laced...

About 30 percent of President Bush's selections for top government jobs are women and 20 percent to 25 percent are minorities, said Clay Johnson, Bush's presidential personnel director. That would...