Defense attorneys for Jose Padilla , now formally accused of being an al Qaeda agent, moved this week to dismiss the charges against him based on allegedly illegal actions by the prosecution. Padilla's attorneys accuse the US...

Ex-Enron vice-president Paula Rieker was sentenced Friday to 2 years probation for insider trading, avoiding up to ten years' imprisonment. Judge Melinda Harmon of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas...

Sudan Ambassador to the UN Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem on Friday disputed the latest report from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the UN Security Council on ongoing violations of human rights in country's Darfur...

The US Government Accountability Office says that erroneous terror watch lists are delaying thousands of travelers moving in and through the United States. A GAO report on the lists published last...

Affidavit, Heather N. Cerveny, US Marine Corps, October 6, 2006 [sworn statement filed by US Marine paralegal Sgt. Heather N. Cerveny who said that she spoke with a group of off-duty Marines who identified themselves as guards and bragged of...

A top US Marine Corps lawyer has called for an investigation of alleged abuses of detainees at Guantanamo Bay after reviewing a sworn statement filed by a Marine paralegal who said that last month she spoke...

British human rights group Reprieve accused the United States in a report issued Friday of using Germany's Ramstein Air Base as a detention center for renditions . Reprieve's sources claim that...

Canadian prosecutor Robert Petit , one of the two active prosecutors for the Cambodian genocide tribunal that will try former leaders of the Khmer Rouge , told a meeting of international prosecutors at The Hague Friday...

The US Supreme Court announced Friday that it will reconsider the death penalty sentence of LaRoyce Lathair Smith, convicted of murdering a 19-year-old Dallas Taco Bell manager...

US Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Melson J. Bacos, a hospital corpsman, pleaded guilty Friday to kidnapping and conspiracy charges in connection to the April 26 death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania....