Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press

The immigrant detained after delivering pizza to Fort Hamilton has been released

An Ecuadorean immigrant who was held for deportation after delivering pizza to a Brooklyn Army installation walked out of an immigration detention center house hours after a judge ordered his immediate release.

ACLU sues over plans for citizenship question on 2020 census

Civil rights lawyers sued the U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday to try to stop plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Lawyer: Ex-CIA employee in cyber leak probe ‘deeply saddened’

Court tosses suit alleging sexual aggression at West Point

A former U.S. Military Academy at West Point cadet who sought judicial relief from what she described as a sexually oppressive culture that included crude chants during campus marches was told Wednesday by an appeals court to seek help from Congress instead.

Air Force vet gets 35 years in prison for trying to join Islamic State

A U.S. Air Force veteran convicted of terrorism charges for trying to join the Islamic State group and die a martyr will spend 35 years in prison.

Navy SEAL, a member of elite parachute team, dies during demonstration over Hudson River

In the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, a Navy SEAL team member fell to his death Sunday after his parachute failed to open during a Fleet Week demonstration over the Hudson River.

Judge scolds government over Iraq detainee abuse pictures

A federal judge scolded the government on Wednesday for being overprotective of potentially disturbing images of how the military treated prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan and proceeding as if court review of its decisions about the pictures should not exist.

U.S. terror attacks common denominator: Anwar al-Awlaki

Five years after Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by an American drone strike, he keeps inspiring acts of terror.