Lawyers representing Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former chief judge of Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era Revolutionary Court, and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti Wednesday mounted last-minute legal challenges to prevent their clients' executions, currently expected...
An official who supervised the execution of Saddam Hussein was arrested Wednesday in connection to the taping of a camera phone video showing Hussein's death and the unruly process...
New UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that resolving the crisis in Darfur was "very high" on his agenda and would be one of his top priorities. Ban, whose tenure as secretary-general officially...
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Tuesday that he would push the United Nations to adopt a universal ban on the death penalty after this weekend's execution of Saddam...
Rizgar Mohammed Amin , the Iraqi Kurdish judge who presided over the Saddam Hussein Dujail trial before resigning in early 2006 over criticisms of his handling of the case, has said that...
Federal courts are closed Tuesday under a proclamation issued last week appointing Tuesday as a National Day of Mourning for former US President Gerald R. Ford , who died last week at...
Former US President Gerald R. Ford died Tuesday at the age of 93. A 1941 Yale Law School graduate who became GOP House Minority Leader during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson,...
US Marines Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich was charged Thursday with 13 counts of murder in connection with the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November, according to Wuterich's lawyer. Officials at Marine Corps Base Camp...
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signed into law Thursday legislation providing legal recognition to same-sex civil unions . The New Jersey Legislature passed the civil unions bill last week in response to an October New...
Spain's High Court ruled Wednesday that it does not have jurisdiction to try former Argentinean naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo for crimes committed during Argentina's "dirty war" . Cavallo has been in Spanish custody since 2003...
