An expert for Europe's largest security organization said Monday that prisoners held at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay are treated better than inmates in Belgian jails, after he returned from a visit to the...
Opening arguments began Monday in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui with government prosecutors claiming the defendant's lies to the FBI when he was arrested in August 2001 could have prevented the Sept. 11...
The US Department of Justice Thursday sued the state of New York for violating the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) by not developing voting systems that enable disabled voters easier access to...
A US Department of Defense official Wednesday defended the government's decision in October to refuse access by UN investigators to detainees being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay , and...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Randall v. Sorrell to decide whether Vermont's Act 64 campaign law , which places strict caps on campaign contributions and spending,...
The UK House of Lords Tuesday voted by a margin of 160-156 to remove references to the "glorification" of terrorism from the Terrorism Bill , proposed after the London bombings last...
The 12th General Conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) ended Tuesday with members of Arab states calling on the United Nations to adopt a resolution which bans offenses against religion, including Islam....
The trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein resumed in Baghdad Tuesday with prosecutors at the Iraqi High Criminal Court - formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal - continuing to present their case on charges...
The main opposition party in Uganda , Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) , said Tuesday that it plans to contest the country's election results in court. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won last Tuesday's election...
The Supreme Court of Ohio Monday ruled that hundreds of convicted defendants will need to be resentenced after judges handed down harsher sentences because they were considering evidence not admitted at trial. The ruling found...
