US Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said Tuesday that the Defense Department's controversial Threat and Local Observation Notice system, or TALON database would be discontinued. Documents released...
The US Supreme Court handed down opinions in two cases Wednesday, including Smith v. Texas , where the Court held that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals incorrectly required...
Convicted civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was disbarred from the New York Bar after her request to voluntarily resign from practicing law was rejected. Stewart was convicted in 2005 of conspiracy and providing...
Authorities in Iraq are failing to guarantee due process and other basic human rights of some 3,000 detainees arrested after a new security plan was instituted in Baghdad in mid-February, according to a new report ...
An Argentine judge ruled Monday that former Argentine President Reynaldo Bignone should stand trial for the kidnapping of children of dissidents killed during Argentina's 1976-83 "Dirty War" . The children were allegedly given...
The three-drug "cocktail" used to execute death row inmates by lethal injection can fail, causing inmates to suffer a painful death, according to a study published Monday by PLoS Medicine . The study's authors...
An Indonesian court Tuesday acquitted American Richard Ness , the regional chief executive of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation , and Newmont's local subsidiary of criminal pollution charges . Ness and Newmont were accused...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has settled accounting fraud charges against HealthSouth founder and former CEO Richard Scrushy under an agreement announced Monday "that permanently bars Scrushy from serving...
An arrest warrant issued over the weekend for former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was suspended Monday after police asked the judge presiding over the case to allow them more time to continue their investigation....
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 . In Gonzales v. Carhart , the Court held that groups challenging...
