California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering a mass release of more than 20,000 nonviolent prisoners in hopes of staving off a projected $10 billion to $14 billion budget deficit over the next two fiscal years, the Sacramento...
The Australian Federal Court on Friday local time upheld a decision to reinstate the work visa of Dr. Mohammad Haneef , who was detained by Australian authorities in July in connection with July's attempted UK car...
The White House said Thursday that it will appeal a Monday ruling that held White House visitor logs to be public documents , asking a federal judge not to force the logs' disclosure in...
The Bush administration is abandoning a plan to give political appointees in the Defense Department a role in the promotion of military lawyers working as members of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, the...
The legal advisor to the Convening Authority for Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, US Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas W.Hartmann , Wednesday denied accusations by former Guantanamo Bay chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis [official profile,...
A judge in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday found alleged Real IRA member Sean Gerard Hoey not guilty of murder in relation to the 1998 Omagh bombing , the worst terrorist attack in Northern...
Three former UK residents held at Guantanamo Bay who were released from US custody Wednesday and then detained by UK authorities the same day on their arrival home were released from UK custody Thursday. Libyan...
The US Senate passed the Block Burmese JADE (Junta's Anti-Democratic Efforts) Act of 2007 Wednesday, a bill that would impose new economic sanctions and travel restrictions on leaders from Myanmar . The bill is...
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Wednesday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against private security contractor Blackwater USA ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Wednesday rejected California's request for a waiver that would have allowed it and 16 other states following its lead to impose stricter greenhouse gas emissions standards on cars and...
