Members of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations promised to crack down on data brokers who gather private information after hearing testimony Wednesday from a former data broker who told...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday demanded that Afghanistan revoke recent National Security Directorate rules that restrict the freedom of the press and effectively ban journalists from writing about Afghanistan's failing security situation. Afghan journalists...

An investigation into the death of 24 Iraqi civilians last November in Haditha focusing on whether senior military personnel covered up the deaths reportedly found several failures to follow up by Marine commanders, but no deliberate cover...

Whitaker, et al v. Perdue, et al [lawsuit filed by the Southern Center for Human Rights arguing that a new Georgia law designed to protect children from sex crimes all but forbids convicted offenders from living in urban and suburban...

Emergency Motion for Preservation of Evidence, Center for Constitutional Rights, US District Court for the District of Columbia, June 21, 2006 [contending that based on the "meager" information released by the government regarding the suicides of three Guantanamo Bay detainees...

The war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor could begin as early as January, Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) officials said Wednesday. Taylor, who was transferred from...

Former Computer Associates senior vice president Thomas Bennett pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of obstruction of justice for his role in the company’s revenue-swapping of $2.2 billion with another company in 1999 and 2000. Bennett, who faces...

A retired Canadian Supreme Court justice said Wednesday that major flaws plaguing the Canadian justice system contributed to the mismanagement of the criminal trial and investigation into the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight from Montreal...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday approved a review of media ownership rules , including limits on ownership of broadcast stations by one company and on cross-ownership by broadcasters and...

The US Marine Corps on Wednesday charged seven Marines and one Navy corpsman with murder and kidnapping in connection to the April 26 death of an Iraqi man outside his home in Hamdania. The eight men allegedly dragged an...