AP is reporting that lawyers for September 11 terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui have asked the judge in his case to reject his attempt to plead guilty.1:02 PM ET - Moussaoui's lawyers argued in a late filing made just hours...
The BBC is reporting that a London court has sentenced Saajid Badat to 13 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in February to conspiring with "shoe-bomber" Richard Reid to blow up an American Airlines flight....
AP is reporting that the Virginia Supreme Court has affirmed the death penalty for DC sniper John Allen Muhammad.9:47 AM ET - Review the 138-page opinion . Three justices issued a partial dissent....
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) , ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has called for a congressional investigation of the role played by US intelligence officials in prisoner abuse scandals in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, citing...
The US House of Representatives passed a Republican-backed energy bill late Thursday aimed at increasing domestic production, including provisions that would permit drilling in the Alaska wildlife refuge and protect the manufacturer of gasoline additive MTBE...
US military spokespersons issued statements Thursday clarifying proposed changes to the militarys policy on consensual sodomy, refuting earlier interpretations by rights groups that the amendments would decriminalize consensual sodomy among members of the armed forces. Pentagon officials...
AP is reporting that a military jury has convicted Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar of murder and attempted murder in a grenade attack on fellow soldiers in Kuwait.8:05 PM ET ~ Akbar, 33, was charged with killing two fellow soldiers...
Brazil has granted asylum to ousted Ecuadoran President Lucio Gutierrez , Brazil's Ministry of External Relations said Thursday. The Ministry said Gutierrez sought asylum Wednesday at the Brazilian embassy in Quito, calling its grant of the...
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, signed into law by President George W. Bush, April 21, 2005. Read the full text of the legislation as signed via THOMAS. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
School District of the City of Pontiac et al. v. Spellings, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, April 20, 2005 [suit brought by the National Educational Association and local school districts seeking to force the federal...
