The Iraqi High Tribunal said on Friday that while coalition forces still provide physical protection for former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz , he has been safe and in no danger in the legal custody...

USA Today reported Friday that its inside sources at BellSouth and Verizon are unable to "document a contractual relationship" between the two phone companies and the National Security Agency, or document that "the companies turned over...

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said on Friday that he would like the state legislature to consider reinstating a ban on same-sex foster parents after the Arkansas Supreme Court Thursday struck down ...

The US military is investigating reports that five US soldiers raped a young woman in the city of Mahmudiyah and then killed her and three family members last March, an anonymous official...

Uzbekistan moved closer to abolishing the death penalty on Thursday as Uzbek President Islam Karimov ordered the establishment of a commission charged with drafting anti-death penalty legislation as well as new criminal laws, both substantive and procedural,...

A panel of federal judges in Texas has given parties to a lawsuit over Texas' congressional district two weeks to propose a solution to the 2003 Texas redistricting plan for the 23rd Congressional District, which...

Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has said that a group of two dozen Hamas MPs and ministers who were detained Thursday will not be held in administrative detention under the Incarceration of Unlawful...

Tenet Healthcare has agreed to pay $900 million to resolve federal allegations of illegal Medicare billing practices. Tenet was charged in 2003 with violating the False Claims Act by...

In a victory for German Chancellor Angela Merkel , a package of constitutional reforms aimed at separating and clarifying the powers of the federal and state governments passed Germany's lower house of parliament in...

A federal judge has extended a temporary restraining order preventing the state of Georgia from fully enforcing a law that restricts where convicted sex offenders can live. The restraining order issued Monday applied only to...