A federal judge Tuesday threatened to take over the California prison health care system , citing "terrible" medical care that prisoners receive. Judge Thelton E. Henderson cited complaints about bad doctors, wretched facilities, and irresponsible management of HIV...
A US bankruptcy judge ruled Tuesday that United Airlines may sever its employees' pension plans, precipitating the largest corporate-pension default in US history. The ruling by Judge Eugene Wedoff means that United employees will now...
New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch issued a report Wednesday criticizing the US and other governments in the West and Middle East for sending Islamist detainees to Egypt, a country infamous for torture . The...
Egypt's lower house of Parliament overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Egyptian Constitution Tuesday setting regulations for multi-candidate presidential elections . The upper house had passed the regulations Sunday, which require candidates to be a...
The Real ID Act passed the US Senate 100-0 late Tuesday as a rider on an $82B emergency supplemental appropriations bill funding military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. The controversial act...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday unanimously rejected a lawsuit brought against Vice-President Dick Cheney for refusing to disclose internal communications of the National Energy Policy Development Group ,...
The Connecticut Supreme Court late Monday night ruled that convicted serial killer Michael Ross was competent to end his death-row appeals , leaving the way open for him to be executed by lethal injection this Friday...
Due to surging numbers of Iraqis held by the US in prison camps, US military commanders have undertaken a $50 million project to expand three existing prisons and build a fourth. The number of Iraqi prisoners has risen steadily,...
State officials and rights groups have voiced financial and privacy concerns over the Real ID Act , the controversial identity legislation passed last Thursday in the US House of Representatives as a rider on...
Hans Blix , former UN chief weapons inspector and current head of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission , said in a New York press conference Monday that the US is undermining its position as a nuclear...
