...President-elect Bush nominated defeated Missouri Sen. John Ashcroft to be attorney general on Friday, choosing a conservative...I'm confident I found the correct person in John Ashcroft," he said. Ashcroft, 58, was a two-term governor...

WASHINGTON -- John Ashcroft will soon be mingling with his friends back in the Senate, some...White is being called by Democrats to testify at the hearing. "John Ashcroft gives me what you call cognitive dissonance," liberal Democratic...

...Timothy McVeigh and preceding the scheduled execution of another condemned federal prisoner on Tuesday, Attorney General John Ashcroft says he has no doubts about the efficacy of the death penalty or the guilt of those sentenced to receive it. In a...

WASHINGTON--"If John Ashcroft is telling the truth," a Senate Democratic staffer remarked, "George Bush has given us another David Souter." The half-jesting...

WASHINGTON -- John Ashcroft's confirmation as attorney general seemed assured as Democrats, abandoning a threat of delaying tactics, moved their attack...

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General John Ashcroft has told the National Rifle Association that he "unequivocally" believes the U.S. Constitution protects the right of individuals...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Attorney General John Ashcroft brushed aside critics of the USA Patriot Act on Friday, saying the United States was freer and safer than it was two years ago...

WASHINGTON --Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday the government may seek the death penalty against Robert Hanssen, the veteran FBI agent accused of spying for Moscow...

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General John Ashcroft and the FBI have broad power to wiretap the phones and secretly search the computers and homes of individuals who can be linked...

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General John Ashcroft took his first concrete steps Wednesday to reign in the FBI after months of turmoil, giving Justice Department watchdogs greater...