California Army National Guard Sgt. David Fimon has been sentenced to a year in military confinement and received a bad-conduct discharge after pleading guilty to abusing detainees in Iraq. Fimon pleaded guilty to maltreatment of detainees, conspiracy to commit...
The Israeli Cabinet voted Sunday to leave Gaza, the last formality in Israeli withdrawal from the region before handing over control to the Palestinian Authority (PA) . However, the Cabinet also voted against demolishing 20 synagogues...
AP is reporting that US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is relieving FEMA Director Michael Brown of his role in managing the federal government's Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Brown will reportedly be replaced by...
AP is reporting that the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the habeas appeal of Jose Padilla , ruling that the "dirty bomb" suspect can be detained without charges indefinitely. Padilla's attorneys had challenged his...
New Orleans police are preparing to carry out Mayor Ray Nagin's forced removal order Friday as the last voluntary evacuees left the city Thursday. Earlier this week, Nagin authorized the forced removal of anyone not...
A Texas grand jury has indicted a political action committee formed by US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and a Texas business group on charges relating to campaign contributions for DeLay's 2002 congressional campaign, though DeLay himself...
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke told the European Parliament Wednesday that it may be necessary for EU member states to accept an erosion of some civil liberties in order to protect their countries from organized...
BBC News is reporting that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has accepted responsibility for mismanagement of the now defunct UN Oil-for-Food program . The Independent Inquiry Committee investigating the program delivered its final...
Suspected looters and others accused of committing crimes in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina are now being held at the city's Greyhound bus station, which has been turned into a makeshift jail. Louisiana...
US Senator Arlen Specter , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-author of a bill to create a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund, said Tuesday that he hoped the Senate would take up the legislation in early...
