Dr. Lester Crawford , a veterinarian who served briefly as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last year, will plead guilty to failure to disclose his financial interest in companies regulated by the...

US Army prosecutors argued in a hearing Monday that an officer overseeing interrogations at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison should face a court-martial for his willful blindness toward prisoner abuse, while a defense attorney countered that most...

The Supreme Court of Missouri on Monday affirmed a trial court decision striking down a state law requiring voters to show Missouri-issued photo identification at the polls [Missouri Dept....

The European Union on Monday formally signed an interim agreement giving the United States access to passenger name record data from European airlines conducting transatlantic flights. The US is expected to formally sign the...

Convicted civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart received a sentence of 28 months Monday. Stewart was convicted of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists for helping imprisoned Sheikh Omar...

A national of Bahrain, two Pakistani nationals and one Iranian were transferred from US custody at Guantanamo Bay into the hands of their home governments over the weekend, the US Defense Department confirmed Monday....

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday announced the launch of the Initiative for Safer Communities, responding to growing concern about the increase of violent crime in American cities. In the first increase since 2001,...

The brother of a prosecutor assigned to the second Saddam Hussein trial was assassinated Monday morning in front of his house in West Baghdad. Imad al-Faroon was pronounced dead immediately after the shooting, which his wife...

The family of a Brazilian man who was shot and killed by London police filed an appeal Monday with the UK High Court challenging a July decision by prosecutors not to bring individual charges against...

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told the press on Sunday that he intends to urge Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring justice to those who killed independent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on October 7...