Texas Judge Pat Priest said Saturday that he will not immediately consider the request of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) to separate criminal charges against him. Earlier this month, Priest threw out criminal...
US government attorneys have asked the US Supreme Court to deny certiorari in the Jose Padilla case , where the court would decide whether an enemy combatant can be held indefinitely without charge. Padilla, the...
In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Bush acknowledged that he has approved secret eavesdropping in the US and said that he has no intention of putting an end to National Security Agency monitoring...
The appeals chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Friday stayed a trial chamber decision that would have allowed former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to return to...
The US House of Representatives late Friday evening narrowly approved a tough new border security and immigration bill that includes plans to build a security fence across 621 miles of the Mexican border and...
Carla del Ponte, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , told the UN Security Council Thursday that Serbia and other European countries are contributing to a "dysfunctional" situation as the UN-backed war crimes...
Survivors of the May 2005 Andijan uprising have filed a lawsuit in Germany under that country's universal jurisdiction laws , accusing Uzbek Interior Minister Zokirjon Almatov of torture and crimes against humanity, the New York-based Human...
The Parliament of New South Wales passed laws in an emergency session Thursday allowing Sydney police to "lockdown" parts of the city if necessary in order to stop racial unrest. The new legislation also increases jail sentences...
AP is reporting that the White House has agreed to accept the McCain Amendment that would ban the cruel and inhumane treatment of terror detainees, according to congressional officials. The White House has previously threatened to veto...
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit brought by an Idaho county against local employers who allegedly hired illegal immigrants which sought to recover medical, school and other costs the county said it spent on the...
