The US House Judiciary Committee passed a non-binding resolution Wednesday asking the President and the Secretary of Defense to provide the House with information on the NSA domestic surveillance program . The...

Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants have begun a hunger strike to protest the abduction and murder of a defense team lawyer in Baghdad early Wednesday morning. Leading defense counsel Khalil al-Dulaimi said the defendants would end...

A Nepal committee has started to consult rebels and civil society leaders in preparation for drafting a temporary constitution after the new Nepal government and Maoist rebels reached a landmark deal Friday. The two parties agreed...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on the world's governments Wednesday to ensure the goal of nuclear non-proliferation by devaluing nuclear weapons and strengthening the treaties to limit and control them. Addressing the opening session of the United Nations Conference...

A guard at a federal detention center in Tallahassee, Florida, shot and killed a US Justice Department agent before being shot and killed himself Wednesday as FBI and Justice Department investigators arrived at the prison to arrest six men,...

The United States and Japan have finalized a treaty that will allow law enforcement authorities from both countries to deal with each other directly to facilitate criminal investigations, rather than going through diplomats. The Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT)...

House GOP leaders on Wednesday indefinitely postponed consideration of the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 , which would renew provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for an additional 25-year...

Speaking Wednesday at a news conference after a US-EU summit meeting in Vienna , President George W. Bush suggested that the White House is open to having Guantanamo Bay detainees tried...

Iran has charged leading women's rights activists Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani and Parvin Ardalan with acting "against national security" in connection with a June 12 women's rights demonstration that turned violent...

Law enforcement officials often obtain Americans' phone records without a warrant or subpoena by paying private data brokers, who sometimes get the information through improper or even illegal techniques, AP reports. Federal agencies that hire data brokers include the...