James Ford Seale , alleged to have been a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) , was sentenced to three life sentences Friday for his role in the kidnapping and death of two 19-year old...
A UK judge Thursday ordered British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to hold off deportations of failed asylum seekers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) pending a determination by an Asylum and Immigration...
US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has confirmed that telecommunications companies have provided vital cooperation to the warrantless domestic wiretapping program , the New York Times reported Friday. In an interview with the...
An Austrian writer wanted for denying the Holocaust was arrested Thursday by Spanish police in Malaga, Spain. Gerd Honsik was convicted of neo-Nazi activities in his native Austria in 1992 and sentenced to 1 1/2 years in...
The man who shot former Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1972 will be released from prison this year, after serving 35 years of a 53-year sentence, a prison official said Thursday. Arthur Bremer is scheduled...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday agreed to reconsider its June ruling that the military cannot seize and imprison civilians lawfully residing in the United States and detain...
Saddam Hussein's cousin and former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid , also known as Chemical Ali, personally killed at least 15 men suspected of participating in a Shi'a uprising in southern Iraq...
The Swiss Federal Tribunal , Switzerland's supreme court, ruled Thursday that Swiss authorities cannot hand over to Russia financial documents linked to Russian oil giant Yukos , finding that the Russian prosecution of former...
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has refused to sign a bill that would give courts the authority to force journalists to disclose confidential sources. The Media Bill 2007 also establishes an independent council to adjudicate complaints...
Japan's national bar association Thursday criticized the execution of three death row inmates and called for a moratorium on the death penalty until new safeguards can be enacted to prevent wrongful executions based on dubious...
