CIA Director Michael Hayden appeared before a closed door session of the US House Intelligence Committee Wednesday to testify about the CIA's destruction of videotapes allegedly showing the harsh interrogation of "high...
SEC Chairman Christopher Cox told said Wednesday that he intends to propose that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) grant a further one-year grace period to small businesses before requiring that they...
CIA Director Michael Hayden appeared before the US Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed session Tuesday to testify about the CIA's destruction of videotapes allegedly showing the harsh interrogation of "high value"...
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Tuesday ruled against publicly releasing documents regarding the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance program , finding that the documents deal with national security...
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday for abuse of authority in the last months of his 1990-2000 rule. Fujimori was convicted of ordering a warrantless search in...
Cuba will sign the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the first quarter of the coming year, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said Monday during an event to mark International Human...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Tuesday ruled that labor unions can try to prevent employers from hiring cheaper labor from other EU countries, but limited workers' right to strike. The court found that...
A former Guantanamo detainee who alleges he was tortured when the CIA handed him over to Moroccan interrogators has asked the UK government to ensure that photographic evidence of his torture is preserved, according to Tuesday reports. Ethiopian Binyam...
The New Jersey Senate Monday voted 21-16 to pass a bill that would abolish the death penalty in the state and replace capital punishment with life in prison. The New Jersey Assembly [official...
The judge presiding over the embezzlement proceedings against relatives of the late former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet stepped down from the case Monday after the defendants' lawyers accused him of bias. The Santiago Court...
