CBS News is reporting that a judge in New York has imposed a $1 million-per-day fine against the New York City Transport Workers Union for violating state law by going on strike. Earlier...
Members of the US House and Senate have abandoned plans to split the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , dropping the proposal from the budget reconciliation bill. House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner had introduced...
AP is reporting that a federal judge has ruled that "intelligent design" cannot be taught in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district. US District Judge John E. Jones III ruled Tuesday that the Dover Area School District...
The trial of five former members of a Serbian paramilitary group charged with the videotaped execution of six Bosnian Muslims during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre began in Belgrade Tuesday. The five defendants, members of...
Five members of the elite US Army 75th Ranger Regiment have been sentenced for up to six months for abusing detainees in Iraq. The five soldiers were charged last month in connection with a September...
Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein said Tuesday that the former Iraqi ruler will be in court when his trial resumes Wednesday. During proceedings earlier this month, Hussein boycotted a trial session ...
Sunni Arabs on Tuesday said that partial results released earlier this week in Iraq's parliamentary elections were a "falsification of the will of the people" and said that there was abundant evidence of fraud. Preliminary results...
Top Senate Democrats have said that they never approved or were fully briefed on the National Security Agency's post-September 11th domestic surveillance program . President Bush has vigorously defended the program, which monitors international communications of people in...
Manfred Nowak, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture , has called for Germany to prosecute the Uzbek Minister of Internal Affairs, Zokirjon Almatov, for his handling of the May 2005 Andijan uprising . A group of survivors...
Kizza Besigye , Uganda's jailed opposition leader, and 22 co-defendants pleaded not guilty Monday to treason charges for which they face the death penalty. Besigye has also been accused of rape and he pleaded not guilty...
