President Barack Obama instructed Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to review Justice Department guidelines for leak investigations, meet with media organizations and report back to him by mid-July. In a speech to the National Defense University, Obama addressed the uproar over his administration’s ...

A director of the All Japan Judo Federation offered Friday to resign to take the blame for his unwanted sexual advance toward a top female athlete. Jiro Fukuda, 76, admitted that he forcibly hugged and tried to kiss the woman in a Tokyo subway ...

Japan Atomic Power Co., operator of the idled Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, said Friday its group sales in the year that ended in March grew 4.3 percent from a year earlier to ¥152.43 billion, even though it failed to generate any electricity. ...

The judge in a murder trial that riveted many Americans with its details of sex and violence declared a mistrial in the life-or-death penalty phase after the jury said it couldn’t come to a decision. The judge Thursday scheduled a retrial for July 18 ...

Wrestling’s governing body has “reacted well” and made the necessary changes to give the sport a chance of saving its place in the Olympics, IOC President Jacques Rogge said. Rogge said FILA has dealt with the issues that led the IOC executive board in ...

A tiny Ecuadorean satellite that collided in space with the remains of a Soviet rocket was damaged and is not transmitting, Quito’s space agency said Thursday. The Pegaso nanosatellite hit debris from an S14 rocket launched by the Soviets into space in 1985. Despite ...

A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner has been replaced as director of the U.S. tax collection agency division that oversaw agents who targeted conservative tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency’s new acting commissioner, told agency ...

World Health Organization officials said Thursday that their probe into the deadly new coronavirus that has claimed 22 lives is being delayed because of a dispute over the ownership rights to a sample. Dr. Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s assistant director general for health security, says ...

The Senate unanimously confirmed Sri Srinivasan on Thursday to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, one of the nation’s most influential courts. The 97-to-zero vote in favor of Srinivasan, the principal deputy solicitor general, marks the first ...