Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was transported out of Sierra Leone to the Netherlands Tuesday to await trial by the Special Court for Sierra Leone , according to Sierra Leone Vice-President Solomon Berewa...

Observers say President Bush could issue a pardon for former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby following last week’s revelation that Karl Rove , Bush's top political advisor, will not face criminal charges in...

Samson v. California, Supreme Court of the United States, June 19, 2006 [holding that the Fourth Amendment does not prevent police officers from routinely searching parolees even when the search is not based on suspicion of criminal wrongdoing, but instead...

The US Office of Military Commissions has delayed a pretrial hearing for Omar Khadr , a Canadian citizen and Guantanamo Bay detainee charged with killing a US Special Forces soldier...

Egyptian police Monday arrested 31 additional members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, bringing the total number of members arrested to 700, according to officers speaking on condition of anonymity. The members were arrested for...

Rapanos v. US & Carabell v. Army Corps of Engineers, Supreme Court of the United States, June 19, 2006 [holding that the Clean Water Act applies only to bodies of water that are "permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of...

An opposition activist who was critical of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko during his most recent presidential campaign has been sentenced to three years in jail by a Belarus court. Nikolai...

The US Army has charged one non-commissioned US military officer and two US soldiers in the deaths of three Iraqi detainees while they were in custody in the northern Salahuddin province of Iraq, according to a statement...

South Dakota Secretary of State Chris Nelson confirmed Monday that a law banning most abortions , which was passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor earlier this year, will appear on...

Any attempts to pass a British version of the US Megan's Law must balance the public's need for information against the security of child-sex offenders, a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair said during a...