Agreement Between the Attorney General of the State of New York and American International Group Inc., announced February 9, 2006 [settlement of $1.64 billion to end civil litigation against the insurance company alleging fraud, bid-rigging and improper accounting, filed by...

EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said in an interview published Thursday that the EU may draw up a new media code of conduct to forestall any repetition of the global controversy now raging over the...

Oversight letter from Rep. James Sensenbrenner, chair of the US House Judiciary Committee, to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting answers about the National Security Agency's (NSA) terrorist surveillance program, February 8, 2006. Read the full text of the questions...

Leaders of the Ulama Council, Afghanistan's top Islamic authority, appealed Wednesday for an end to violent protests against the publication of Muhammad caricatures in European newspapers, but the call came too late to stop hundreds rioting...

US senators voted 98-1 late Tuesday in favor of allowing debate to proceed on a controversial asbestos bill that would supplant asbestos-related litigation with claims against a $140 billion compensation fund. Asbestos-injured workers and their families...

Several hundred Afghan protestors demonstrating against the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish, Norwegian and other European papers stormed a NATO ISAF peacekeeping base near Maymana [alternatively "Meymaneh"; Wikipedia...

US. v. Zacarias Moussaoui, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, February 6, 2006 [49-page questionnaire asking potential jurors about their opinions regarding Muslims, their religious beliefs, and their feelings about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on...

Prepared Statement of Hon. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States, before the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the NSA's Surveillance Authority, February 6, 2006 [testimony calling the NSA surveillance program "reasonable" and...

At least five people protesting the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish and other European papers were killed in Afghanistan Monday when security forces and police opened fire on demonstrators as the cartoons...

Lebanese Interior Minister Hassan Sabeh resigned his post Sunday after rioters protesting the Danish publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad set fire to the Danish embassy in Beirut . Sabeh had been criticized [Beirut...