US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said that privacy concerns over the new Secure Flight passenger screening program are overstated. Speaking Tuesday with USA Today editors, he observed:The average American gives information...
A federal judge set a trial date for early next year in the case of two Albany men accused of money laundering and supporting terrorism. Yassin Aref, 35, is imam at the Masjid as-Salam mosque in Albany...
The Serb minority in Kosovo Wednesday objected to a self-rule plan proposed by the province's Albanian leaders, asking for more concessions. The Serbs are demanding decentralized power and bigger self-governing areas in what is now a UN...
The wife and son of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet were charged Wednesday as accomplices in a tax fraud case related to accusations that Pinochet hid millions of dollars in overseas accounts, including some in...
Citing national security concerns, the US Justice Department has asked a federal district court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Canadian man who claims he was deported to Syria and tortured. Maher Arar , born in Syria...
President Bush signed a 6-year, $286.4 billion highway bill on Wednesday, ending a long debate between Congress and the White House and putting into place a permanent highway bill for the first time since September 2003. The old bill...
Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that five men turned over to them by US authorities at Guantanamo have been released. No names were given, but an official said the five had completed the judicial process...
Despite answering questions before the Iraqi Special Tribunal in late June, former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz said Tuesday that he will not testify against Saddam Hussein [JURIST news...
Public Advocate of the United States , a right-wing group based in Virginia, announced Wednesday that they would become the first conservative group to oppose the nomination of John Roberts to the US...
Britain's Conservative Party leader Michael Howard Wednesday joined an earlier call by former UK Home Secretary David Blunkett for the British courts not to interfere with Parliament's efforts to enact new anti-terrorism laws....
