Members of the 9/11 Commission considered asking the US Justice Department to investigate suspected deception by government officials intended to hide mistakes in the Pentagon's response to the Sept. 11 attacks , the Washington Post...
US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Tuesday that the White House has changed its position on military commissions , and now favors an approach that would try suspected terrorist detainees under...
Ten permanent resident immigrants sued the federal government on Tuesday, arguing that their naturalization applications have been unnecessarily delayed by "the bureaucratic failings and callous inaction" of the FBI and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in...
A federal appeals court Friday affirmed the securities fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence handed down for former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers . Ebbers appealed the 2005 district court determinations, saying...
The Spanish government on Friday unveiled the anticipated "Law for the Recovery of the Historical Memory," legislation aimed at healing the wounds of Gen. Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime that ruled Spain from 1939...
Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika announced Friday that a criminal investigation has been opened into the June abduction and murder of four Russian embassy employees in Iraq. In a statement, the Prosecutor General's office said...
A Turkish court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking compensation from novelist Orhan Pamuk , who was sued by six nationalists after he made allegedly unfavorable remarks to a Swiss magazine about Turkey's stance on...
Some leftist Italian lawmakers belonging to the Union Coalition of Italian prime minister Romano Prodi have expressed dissatisfaction with a controversial sentence-reduction bill that has been extended to include prisoners convicted of fraud and other...
Lawyers for the three men sentenced to death for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings Friday threatened to sue the Indonesia attorney general's office if their clients' executions, currently scheduled for mid-August , are carried out before...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales pressed Republican lawmakers last week for a bill that would "shield" US soldiers from potential prosecution in US federal courts over violations of the 1996 War Crimes Act , according to a...
