US President George W. Bush signed an anti-terror bill Friday that implements recommendations by the 9/11 commission . The measure will transfer funds to states and cities found to be at...
A military jury in Camp Pendleton, California, Friday sentenced US Marine Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins, III to 15 years in prison for his role in the April 2006 kidnapping and murder of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad...
Two men who allege that the CIA detained and tortured them in foreign prisons Wednesday joined a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against San Jose-based Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan [corporate...
A military jury Wednesday found a US Marine corporal guilty of conspiracy to murder, larceny and housebreaking for his role in the April 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania [USMC timeline; JURIST news...
A French court of appeals Wednesday released two men accused of involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide , finding that the warrants issued for their arrest by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) could not...
The US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved a bill Wednesday to allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate tobacco. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act ,...
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell Tuesday defended Attorney General Alberto Gonzales against accusations of lying to Congress during testimony last week. In his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Tuesday, Gonzales insisted that a...
The US House voted 225-199 Tuesday to extend the deadline for employees to sue their employer for payment discrimination. The new legislation, the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007 , would allow employees to sue...
An Indian court Friday sentenced to death Yakub Memon, the brother of a man suspected of plotting the 1993 Mumbai bombings [BBC backgrounder, for his role in the attack that killed 257 people and injured more than 700 in...
The US Congress sent an anti-terror bill to President George Bush for signature Friday. The bill, based on recommendations by the 9/11 commission , would transfer funds to states and cities found to...
