The US Department of Justice has submitted a body of proposed laws to Congress that would strengthen federal intellectual property enforcement, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced Thursday during remarks at an anti-piracy meeting in...
A Pentagon spokesperson has said that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is authorized to override the new Department of Defense Directive released Tuesday requiring all interrogations of detainees to be conducted in...
US Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana Jim Letten has announced that his office is conducting a criminal investigation into alleged corruption of individuals involved in the design, construction and maintenance of the flood barriers of...
Representatives of the NAACP and the ACLU Voting Rights Project testified before the US House Judiciary Committee Wednesday as to how Congress should modify the Voting Rights Act ...
The office of Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti announced Tuesday that it is investigating the possibility of legal action against the companies that designed and constructed the levee systems that led to the flooding of large portions...
In meetings with US senators on Tuesday, US Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito said that the Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing women the right to an abortion was...
Italian state TV RAI Tuesday aired a documentary accusing the United States of using the chemical white phosphorus against both insurgents and civilians during a military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah...
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Tuesday called for a Congressional investigation into who leaked information on secret Central Intelligence Agency prison facilities in Eastern Europe rumored...
The Pentagon on Tuesday announced it has issued a new directive restricting interrogation practices of suspected terrorists. Department of Defense Directive 3115.09 establishes the broad requirement that all intelligence interrogations of detained individuals...
Texas Administrative Judge B.B. Schraub on Thursday recused himself from further proceedings in the trial of Rep. Tom DeLay after Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle filed a motion requesting a new...
