In the latest legal assault on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , conservative business organization the Free Enterprise Fund has asked former US solicitor general and Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr , former US assistant attorney general...

The UN Security Council Friday passed a wide-ranging resolution on duties to civilians in armed conflict that included a landmark affirmation of an international responsibility to protect in the face of war crimes, genocide and ethic cleansing when...

A Review of the FBI's Investigative Activities Concerning Potential Protesters at the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Political Conventions, Special Report, US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, April 2006. Read the full text of the report ....

The US Army announced late Friday that it has charged Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, former head of interrogation operations at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison , with seven violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice ,...

President Bush Friday called on Sudan to resolve the conflict in its troubled Darfur region , asking the country's government to act in “full compliance with the international desire for there to be peace.” The President’s remarks...

The Miami federal judge presiding over the trial of terror suspect Jose Padilla on Friday rejected prosecutors' attempts to require Padilla’s defense attorneys to sign a "memorandum of understanding" regarding the security of secret evidence the...

The US Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General reported Friday that the FBI did not use the threat of terrorism investigations to intimidate political protesters at the 2004 Democratic and Republican national...

South Korean prosecutors in Seoul arrested Hyundai Motors Group CEO Chung Mong-koo Friday on charges of embezzlement, misappropriation and bribery. Prosecution spokesman Kang Chan-woo made the arrest announcement shortly after Seoul District Court Judge Lee...

The constitutional reform process in Bosnia and Herzegovina appears in disarray after the lower house of the Bosnian parliament voted earlier this week to reject a set of proposals backed by the US and the...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday urged Libyan authorities to release five Bulgarian nurses who are accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus. The medics have been imprisoned since 1999...