British playwright Harold Pinter , winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature , has called for war crimes charges against US President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in an acceptance...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard two cases involving jury deliberations in death penalty cases. In the first, Oregon v. Guzek , the Court considered whether juries can...
US Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald on Wednesday presented additional evidence to a newly empaneled grand jury in the CIA leak case . Fitzgerald has continued his probe and is reportedly considering...
A Chilean appeals court on Wednesday stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution for the disappearance of an additional 29 leftists under his regime. The ruling allows the 29 cases to...
A nonpartisan group that tracks the records of federal government personnel has sued the Bush administration for withholding the names and job information of about 900,000 civilian employees. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) filed a complaint...
The Iraqi government has said that it has been unable to complete an investigation into allegations that prisoners at an interior department facility were tortured because mistakes made by US soldiers who discovered the site tainted some of the...
A bombing at a Bangladesh court complex Thursday during a strike by lawyers in the country has wounded 25. The blast is the latest in a series of bombings outside courthouses and reportedly occurred near a...
UN leaders have largely given up on completing a comprehensive treaty against terrorism before the end of the year, as hoped by UN leaders, with a working committee on the treaty failing to break an impasse over...
The government's lead counsel in its lawsuit against the tobacco industry on Wednesday withdrew from the case, as an investigation continues into whether political pressure forced the government to lower its demands in the case. Sharon Eubanks,...
The California Supreme Court late Wednesday denied a request by Stanley Tookie Williams , the Crips gang founder turned anti-gang activist, to halt his scheduled execution. Defense lawyers for Williams challenged forensic evidence in the case...
