President Bush on Thursday signed into law the Pension Protection Act of 2006 , which he called the "most sweeping reform" of US pension law since the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

A federal jury sitting in Raleigh, North Carolina on Thursday found David Passaro guilty of abusing a detainee in Afghanistan . The jury convicted Passaro on three misdemeanor counts of simple assault and...

Delaware must make their public documents available to residents of other states, according to a ruling handed down Wednesday by the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Delaware's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as...

ACLU v. NSA, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, August 17, 2006 [rejecting the government's assertion of the state secrets privilege, holding that the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program is unconstitutional and...

A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin to 24 years in prison for organizing a series of contract killings, including the 1998 murder of Vladimir Petukhov, the...

AP is reporting that US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has ruled that the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program is unconstitutional and has ordered the National Security Agency to immediately...

A federal jury in New Orleans on Thursday found Merck negligent for failing to warn doctors about the risks associated with taking the painkiller Vioxx and found that Merck...

Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon on Wednesday filed a notice of appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit , and told reporters that he intends to appeal a federal court ruling [PDF...

The United Nations has opened an investigation into a suspected child prostitution ring in the Democratic Republic of Congo facilitated by UN peacekeepers and Congo soldiers, the UN Mission in DR Congo (MONUC) said...

British authorities investigating a foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean last week released a suspect without charge on Thursday. The suspect was arrested Tuesday. London's Metropolitan Police Service...