Belarus authorities have sentenced Alexander Milinkevich and three other opposition leaders to a fifteen-day jail term for attending an illegal demonstration after arresting them Thursday. At the peaceful rally in Minsk, the...

US v. I. Lewis Libby, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Reggie B. Walton, April 27, 2006 [rejecting a motion to dismiss criminal charges against former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in connection with the...

The Republican leadership of the US House of Representatives on Thursday postponed debate on the Lobbying Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 in order to allow more time for the bill's supporters to secure...

Hurricane Katrina investigation report, US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, April 27, 2006 . Read the...

By the Numbers: Findings of the Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project, New York University Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, April 26, 2006 [reporting that at least 600 US troops have been linked...

Chinese Internet journalist Yang Tianshui, a member of China's chapter of International PEN , an association that promotes freedom of speech, faces up to 15 years in jail on charges that he attempted to "subvert state power" by...

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said Thursday that he is considering proposing legislation that would suspend funding for the NSA domestic surveillance program if the Bush...

American-educated Saudi and alleged al Qaeda suspect Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi denied before a pre-trial military commission hearing at Guantanamo Bay Thursday that he was guilty of war crimes , but...

Several US states, cities, and environmental groups led by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit Thursday against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US Court of Appeals for...

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 4-3 Thursday that it is constitutional for a judge to require a convicted sex offender to turn over DNA samples to the Canadian National DNA Data Bank , even...