The state secrets privilege allows the U.S. government to withhold sensitive evidence in court cases. Both Democratic and ...

The Secret Service shot a man who it says was waving ... "giving people false hope is something you should never do." A United Nations official in Sudan says at least 100 people, including 20 ...

The legal doctrine has its roots in a contract between President Abraham Lincoln and a spy for the Union during the Civil War.

The United States has the most powerful weapon in the world that no one knows about, US President Donald Trump said during a ...

After the Nixon White House sued to stop The New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, an editor wrote a memo ...

The Justice Department said in court papers Monday that it was invoking the “state secrets privilege” in refusing to provide details demanded by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg about ...

The Justice Department’s decision to invoke the rarely used state secrets privilege in a bid to avoid giving a federal judge’s details on questions on two deportation flights has opened a complicated ...

The Trump administration is invoking state secrets privilege to avoid giving a judge more information about last week's ...

For nearly three years before Trump’s return to power, the United States and Ukraine were joined in an extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology whose evolution and ...

It’s never been easier to steal secrets from the United States government. Can you even call it stealing when it’s this simple? The Trump administration has unlocked the vault doors ...