Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will announce Wednesday an expedited, modified review process to decide which company will win a highly criticized $40 billion deal to build mid-air refueling tanker planes, sources tell FOX News.

Karl Rove, who was President Bush's chief political adviser until resigning last year, will not appear before a House Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled Thursday, his lawyer informed the committee.

The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that will overhaul rules on terrorist surveillance while giving the Bush administration a win it had sought for months, legal immunity for telecommuncations companies that helped in a secret eavesdropping program.

Tech giants' people tell Senate committee than privacy rules should be firm, simple and clear.

A federal judge has dismissed a slander lawsuit filed by former California congressman Gary Condit against author Dominick Dunne.

A federal judge says the Justice Department must put other cases aside and make the challenges of Guantanamo Bay detainees a top priority.

A congressional investigation finds Medicare paid as much as $93 million to medical suppliers based on prescriptions from dead doctors.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Tuesday on President Bush to draw down a portion of the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to reduce crude prices, but Republicans want more