The US prison and jail population added prisoners from mid-2004 to mid-2005 at a rate of 2.6 percent and more than 1,000 new inmates a week, reaching a total of 2,186,230 inmates behind bars according to a...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that the government has authority to prosecute journalists for publishing classified material under several "statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully, would seem to...
FBI agents videotaped US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) last August accepting $100,000 in cash as a bribe from wealthy businesswoman Lori Mody for a Nigerian official, according to an FBI affidavit made public Sunday. Mody was...
Raouf Abdel-Rahman , the judge presiding over the Saddam Hussein trial , on Monday threw defense lawyer Bushra Khalil out of the courtroom for apparently arguing with the chief judge. Khalil, the only female...
Leaders of right-wing anti-government paramilitaries in Colombia said Friday that Thursday's decision by the country's Constitutional Court throwing out a part of last years controversial Justice and Peace Law giving lesser punishments to paramilitary leaders...
The White House Friday responded to a report by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) calling on the US to shut down its Guantanamo Bay detention facility by reinterating President...
Police in Zimbabwe arrested opposition leader Arthur Mutambara and 70 supporters on Friday for allegedly campaigning for a Saturday byelection in violation of Zimbabwes Public Order and Security Act , which makes it illegal...
The French National Assembly has postponed until at least October debate on a controversial bill sponsored by the opposition Socialist Party that would make it a crime...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned in a speech delivered in Japan Thursday that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty faces a twin crisis of "confidence and complicity":The Treaty embodies a contract between the nuclear weapon States and the rest...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday that tobacco giant Philip Morris Inc. cannot avoid liability in a wrongful death lawsuit by claiming that smokers should know that cigarettes are dangerous....
