The US Defense Department's controversial Threat and Local Observation Notice system, or TALON database , will be discontinued on September 17 but the data it has collected will be retained in...
Lawyers in Kenya are now ranked as the ninth most corrupt group in the country, according to the Kenya Bribery Index 2007, a report released Tuesday by Transparency International (TI) . The annual Kenya Bribery Index ...
US Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on Thursday asked Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine to investigate potentially misleading or dishonest testimony given in previous hearings by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ...
A former Marine sergeant has been charged with two counts of voluntary manslaughter for killing two Iraqi insurgents during the Multinational National Force-Iraq's November 2004 offensive in Fallujah , his lawyers said Thursday. Jose Nazario will be arraigned...
Personal notes by FBI Director Robert Mueller released Thursday reveal that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft was "feeble, barely articulate, clearly stressed" when current Attorney General and then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales confronted...
The US House of Representatives Monday approved a non-binding resolution , asking Japan to formally apologize for enslaving hundreds of thousands of women in East Asia and the Pacific to serve as "comfort...
Russian prosecutors have brought fresh embezzlement charges against exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky , a lawyer appointed to Berezovsky's case said Monday. The charges assert that in 1997 Berezovsky took part in a $13 million...
Humanitarian and relief non-governmental organizations (NGO) are currently unable to effectively meet the needs of eight million Iraqi refugees as a result of Iraq's poor legal framework, according to a joint report issued Monday by Oxfam and...
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will not reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, according to a letter released Thursday to Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin. The Fairness Doctrine , under...
City and town clerks in Massachusetts may issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples from New Mexico, according to recent instructions from the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records . A July 18 internal notice to municipal employees said that...
