In the wake of a lawsuit from groups including the ACLU and Greenpeace , the US Department of Justice has admitted that the FBI has thousands of pages of records on file...
A new report by the American Progress Fund has savaged US television news networks for covering trivial legal stories such as the "runaway bride" [CNN.com report; interview on coverage with CNN president Jonathan Klein; Columbia Journalism Review...
UK Home Office minister Hazel Blears announced in a letter to opposition leaders released late Friday that the British government plans to create new criminal offenses covering incitement and the teaching or receiving of terrorist training in...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Friday upheld US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's ruling that regulations imposed by the Federal Election Commission undercut the McCain-Feingold campaign...
A strong majority in Jordans House of Deputies , the country's lower house of parliament , voted Thursday to reject an extradition agreement between Jordan and the US. The vote followed several lawmakers' speeches blasting the United States...
Former Qwest Communications CFO Robin Szeliga pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of insider trading. Szeliga, initially charged last month , will likely face a term of 15 to 21 months in prison...
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has told the joint House and Senate Judiciary Committee that his proposal to reinstate the death penalty would ensure that no innocent people were executed by including multiple levels...
Bankrupt energy company Enron Corporation has agreed to pay over $1.5 billion to settle claims that it gouged California, Oregon and Washington and companies such as Pacific Gas & Electric Co., Southern California Edison Co., and...
A memo dated Thurday obtained by Associated Press and prepared by the general counsel's office of the independent commission reviewing the base closings could disrupt US Department of Defense efforts to consolidate or dissolve up to 30...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard told a news conference Friday in the wake of the London bombings that Australia should reconsider introducing a national identity card, an idea the country debated but shelved back in 1987....
