Department of Justice

A contractor for the National Security Agency has been arrested on charges that he illegally removed highly classified information and stored the material in his home and car, federal prosecutors said Oct. 5.

A court order the U.S. government requested to force Apple to unlock an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino shooting rampage is about "the victims and justice," FBI Director James Comey said.

Public prosecutors in the German city of Stuttgart are investigating whether staff at auto parts supplier Robert Bosch GmbH was involved in the rigging of emissions tests by Volkswagen (VW), the prosecutor's office said on Dec. 16.

The director of the FBI said Nov. 19 there was no specific threat to the United States of a Paris-style terror attack and played down video warnings by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.

United States President Barack Obama's plan to protect from deportation an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally suffered another setback on Nov. 9 in a ruling from a New Orleans-based federal appeals court.

Hillary Clinton had the right to delete messages from her personal e-mail account that she deemed non-work related while she was Secretary of State, the US Department of Justice said in a court filing.

The FBI has started investigating Hillary Clinton's controversial use of private email as Secretary of State and has contacted a firm that managed the setup, along with her attorney, The Washington Post reported on August 4.

Leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said July 25 she never knowingly sent or received classified information using her private email server and did not know what messages were being cited by intelligence investigators as examples of emails containing classified information.

US authorities on June 18 charged a New Jersey man with conspiring to support the militant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the fourth person arrested in recent days in and around New York City as part of a broader investigation. 

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and a delegation headed by him are paying a two-day working visit to Switzerland on Sunday and Monday.