WASHINGTON (AP) - Prosecutors say they'll drop manslaughter charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide contractors charged in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting. In court...

The FARC has proposed trading some 40 remaining high-value captives, including former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. defense contractors, for...

Chavez says Venezuela's state oil company will pay off the debts it has accumulated with oil contractors before the end of the year. He says Venezuela plans to increase credits...

Obama's office said improper payments to individuals, organizations and contractors totaled 72 billion dollars in 2008, and a staggering 98 billion dollars this year. Part of...

The Obama administration will also seek to impose penalties on government contractors that receive improper payments so they have incentives to return the money, Orszag said....

New job numbers from businesses, contractors, state and local governments, non-profit groups and universities were not scheduled to be released publicly until Friday afternoon...

The case is just the latest in a series of multi-million dollar fraud accusations leveled at US government contractors in Iraq, including allegations that Halliburton subsidiary...

war zone than some contractors working within the U.S. The government's six-count federal indictment claimed the company manipulated a complex funding formula to defraud the U.S....

the part of US contractors. Ex-Marine Jason Lemieux told how a senior officer had altered a report he had written because it slammed US troops of using excessive force, firing...

The audit also reveals a confrontational approach that a congressional oversight committee has said the agency uses too sparingly when dealing with contractors. Last week,...

in bribes from defense contractors. Former Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for taking bribes from lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and ex-Rep. James...

Amid the dust, the sea of military personnel in uniform and civilian contractors wearing jeans and T-shirts, they're the ones wearing jackets and ties. True, sartorial dress...

The alliance said nine international service members and 10 civilian contractors, as well as several Afghans, were wounded in Friday's attack, which occurred near a logistics...

'' she continued, a reference to the widespread belief that American military contractors are slipping into the country. Such talk reflects the delicate and often contradictory...