In the wake of public urging from President Bush, Congressional leaders Friday took steps to damp down a brewing constitutional conflict with the US Department of Justice over a weekend FBI search of the...
An ongoing investigation into the November 2005 deaths of two dozen Iraqi civilians in the city of Haditha has yielded evidence indicating that the US Marines may have committed murders, according to a senior military officer speaking to AP...
AP is reporting that the federal judge in the CIA leak case against former Vice-Presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has granted part of Libby's request to issue subpoenas to TIME magazine and the New York Times...
A federal judge has ordered the US Department of Defense to expedite processing of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and several student groups regarding the alleged...
Following US Senate passage of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 on Thursday, observers suggested Friday that President Bush is likely to play an important role in reconciling the Senate plan with...
The Court of Appeal in London Friday refused to grant a stay of extradition to Farid Hilali, an alleged UK contact for the September 11 hijackers who is being deported to Spain to face terrorism charges for...
A Russian judge Friday found Nurpashi Kulayev guilty of all charges for his role in the September 2004 Beslan school siege , sentencing him to life in prison. Kulayev was charged with...
As the British Ministry of Defence continues investigating the deaths of several Iraqi detainees in British military custody , a military tribunal judge on Thursday found a British soldier not guilty of manslaughter for allegedly forcing...
A three-judge panel of the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard defense arguments in the appeal of three guilty bench verdicts handed down in 2004 to three US Muslims in the 'Virginia Jihad network' case [JURIST...
The US House Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 20-13 to approve the full committee markup of the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006 , the 'net neutrality' bill sponsored by Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner...
