John M. "Mike" McConnell , who succeeded John Negroponte as US Director of National Intelligence in February, is reportedly circulating proposed amendments to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to respond to FISA's perceived inflexibility and...

Six Egyptian human rights organizations issued a report Tuesday alleging that only five percent of Egyptian citizens participated in last month's constitutional referendum , far lower than the 27 percent voting rate announced by Egyptian Justice Minister Mamdouh...

Claims of clergy sex abuse levied against the US Roman Catholic Church decreased for the second year in a row and recent cases involving claimants under age 18 have dropped significantly, according to an annual report...

The Washington State House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a domestic partnership bill (SB 5336) by a vote of 63-35 that grants same-sex couples hospital visitation rights, inheritance rights when there is no...

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signed off on legislation Tuesday that will award Maryland's ten votes in the US Electoral College to the national popular vote winner in presidential elections, instead of the recipient of...

Former US Green Beret Jonathan 'Jack' Idema , the last of three US citizens jailed in 2004 on charges of running a private jail and torturing eight Afghan men, will reportedly be released from an Afghan...

Two former administrators at a Texas juvenile prison were arrested Tuesday on 13 charges of improper sexual conduct with six students. Former West Texas State School principal John Paul Hernandez and former assistant superintendent Ray...

The government of Ethiopia admitted in a statement from its Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Tuesday that it had detained 41 terror suspects and granted foreign investigators access to the detainees for questioning....

Europol , the EU law enforcement organization that handles criminal intelligence, presented its EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report TE-SAT 2007 to the European Parliament Tuesday, providing an overview of terrorism in the 27-member...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a Bush administration plan to protect salmon and steelhead near hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin violated the Endangered Species...