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(Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail account while U.S. Secretary of State may not have broken the law though it exposed her to hacking and ran counter to the Obama administration’s policy of preserving electronic records. Security specialists say she also failed to take adequate precautions to safeguard the account -- which she used for all her official business. “It’s not clear to me whether any laws were broken,” said John Wonderlich, policy director of the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit that advocates for government transparency. “What clearly was violated was our public expectations for how public records work.” The revelations come as Clinton is preparing to announce a campaign for the Democratic nomination for president as soon as April. Her activities at the State Department and her work with the foundation already are providing fodder for Republican critics who say Clinton hasn’t been fully transparent about her activities at th...

General David Petraeus has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection to his handling of classified material -- striking a plea deal with the government that avoids an embarrassing trial and that will likely keep him out of prison over whether he leaked private information to his mistress when he headed up the CIA. Federal prosecutors will ask the judge for two years of probation for Petraeus. The criminal complaint, filed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina’s Charlotte Division, charges Petraeus with one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material. The plea deal marks a spectacular fall for the retired four-star general, who was once considered a possible presidential or vice presidential candidate  for the United States. Petraeus’ mistress, Paula Broadwell, is a former Army  Reserve officer who had an affair with  Petraeus in 2011, when she interviewed him for a biography s...

TEHRAN — The tensions between the United States and Israel over how to address  Iran ’s  nuclear program  and a politically divisive speech Tuesday by Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu  of Israel to the United States Congress are playing to an eager audience in Tehran. The news media here has highlighted  the division as evidence that Israel is being isolated  by its otherwise steadfast ally and analysts are examining how the rift might affect the outcome of the nuclear negotiations. “Israel’s prime minister tries to maximize the stakes and raise the expectation for the outcome of the talks,” Hamid Reza Taraghi, a political analyst close to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said after Mr. Netanyahu’s speech Tuesday. “Israel is trying to pressure us, to make Iran cave in,” he added. “No way that will ever happen.” Continue reading the main story RELATED COVERAGE Transcript of Netanyahu’s Remarks to Congress MARCH 3, 2015 ...

BOSTON — Prosecutors want panels of the boat in which Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found hiding to be brought to court to show jurors what they say is his written confession. Real-time updates from Federal court But Tsarnaev's attorneys object to the plan and want the jury instead to go see the boat intact. The issue was argued Monday during a final pretrial hearing. Opening statements in Tsarnaev's federal death penalty trial are scheduled for Wednesday. Prosecutors have said Tsarnaev scrawled the motive for the 2013 deadly attack inside the boat. They say he referred to U.S. wars in Muslim countries and wrote, "Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop." Tsarnaev's lawyers also asked the judge to limit "highly disturbing" autopsy photos of the three who died in the bombings.

WASHINGTON — Six months after the fatal shooting of a black teenager by police in Ferguson, Mo., the Justice Department is expected to conclude that local authorities engaged in discriminatory enforcement during traffic stops and arrests involving blacks, two Justice officials said Monday. The officials were not authorized to discuss the outcome of the investigation publicly and requested anonymity. The conclusions, expected to be disclosed as soon as this week, are part of a long-awaited examination of policing in Ferguson, where the August shooting of Michael Brown prompted waves of sustained protests across the country and a national re-examination of local law enforcement's relationship with minority communities.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi attorney general's attempt to investigate Google is on hold for at least four more months. U.S. District Judge  Henry T. Wingate  on Monday granted Google's request for a preliminary injunction, preventing Attorney General  Jim Hood  from going through with a subpoena meant to examine whether Google is facilitating others' illegal activities on its sites. The injunction will also bar Hood from filing civil or criminal charges for now. The Internet giant, based in Mountain View, California, argued that Hood's investigation is blocked by a 1996 federal law that says Internet services are immune from lawsuits over what third parties say using the services. "At this point, Google has the better part of the argument on the reach of the Communications Decency Act of 1996," Wingate said in a ruling read from the bench. He promised a longer written ruling within 10 days. Wingate, in discussions with lawyers...

A jury in the New York suburbs found Lacey Spears, of Scottsville,  Kentucky , guilty of second-degree murder in the death last year of 5-year-old Garnett-Paul Spears. The defense portrayed Spears as a caring mother and her son as sickly, but the prosecution argued that Spears reveled in the attention Garnett's illness brought her. Video showed Spears twice taking the boy into a hospital bathroom with a connector tube and the boy suffering afterward. "The motive is bizarre, the motive is scary, but it exists," Assistant District Attorney Patricia Murphy said in closing arguments Thursday. "She apparently craved the attention of her family, her friends, her co-workers and most particularly the medical profession." She suggested that Spears, 27, eventually killed the boy because she feared he would start telling people she was making him ill. Her actions were "nothing short of torture," she said. Several doctors testified that there was no med...