Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy , along with two others, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges if a "widespread racketeering conspiracy" that included bribery for official...
The US House Committee on Resources on Wednesday approved a budget package that includes provisions to relax a ban on oil and gas drilling along the nation's coast and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
A six-person jury on Wednesday found the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey negligent in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by Islamic radicals that killed six and injured 1,000. According...
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees on a hunger strike must be notified by the Defense Department before their clients may be force fed against their will, US District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled...
The British government's proposed Terrorism Bill passed its first test in the House of Commons Wednesday, despite a 16 MP-strong rebellion of Labour Party backbenchers against the government and continued...
Uzbek prosecutors in the trial of 15 men accused of plotting a rebellion in Andijan on Wednesday sought prison sentences of between nine and 20 years for the suspects. Prosecutors urged the court to issue a 20-year sentence for...
Lebanese prosecutors have charged two men in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , sources reported Wednesday. The two men, brothers Ahmad and Mahmoud Abdel-Al, were both named last week by a report [text; JURIST...
A German court on Wednesday found four Middle Eastern men guilty of links to al Qaeda and of plotting to attack Jewish targets in Germany, and the four were sentenced to between five and eight years in prison. The...
US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has said that she will provide more details to the Senate Judiciary Committee after Republican and Democratic committee leaders requested that Miers resubmit her answers to a judicial...
Australia has disputed suggestions by the US Department of Defense that the four years terror suspect David Hicks has been detained at Guantanamo Bay should not count toward any...
