The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Board of Education of the City of New York v. Tom F. , 06-637, in which the Court...
Israel released 57 Palestinian detainees Monday in a gesture of good will toward Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas , just days before a planned peace conference sponsored by the US. Last week, the Israeli cabinet approved...
Houston oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his involvement in the Iraq Oil-for-Food scandal . Wyatt pleaded guilty to only one of five charges...
Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (INP) has begun officially publishing a list of public officials who worked with or were spied on by the country's Communist-era secret police as part of ongoing efforts to reconcile Poland's pre-1989...
The US federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) said Wednesday that it will reshelve all religious material taken from prison chapel libraries originally determined to fall outside of the agency's approved list of materials. The BOP made the...
Egypt Wednesday called US criticism of its alleged rights violations "unacceptable," labeling a Monday White House statement about the closure of the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid as "interference" in...
US President George W. Bush Tuesday withdrew John Rizzo as the White House nominee for CIA general counsel in light of concerns from Democrats over Rizzo's support for certain interrogation techniques. During a hearing on...
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi urged all nations to institute a moratorium on capital punishment in an address delivered to the UN General Assembly Tuesday. Prodi said that such action would mark great progress in...
US Army Spc. Jorge G. Sandoval pleaded not guilty at his court-martial in Iraq Wednesday to charges that he and two other soldiers killed three unarmed Iraqis and then placed weapons next to the bodies. Sandoval, along with Staff...
Chinese lawyer and outspoken critic of the Chinese government Gao Zhisheng has been arrested again, this time for writing a letter to the US Congress asking the US to help the human rights situation in his...
