Admitted al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was unexpectedly allowed back into court Wednesday, despite a decision Tuesday by US District Judge Leonie Brinkema barring his presence Tuesday at ongoing jury selection proceedings for his sentencing trial...

Lawyers for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , found guilty in November on charges of joining al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush, have asked a federal judge to delay his sentencing hearing,...

Facing a wartime enlistment deficiency, the US Army is granting special exceptions, called recruiting waivers , to an increasingly high percentage of recruits with criminal records or drug and alcohol problems. While the...

New US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has chosen Adam G. Ciongoli, a former counselor to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft as one of his five law clerks. Ciongoli, 37, who currently serves...

A US federal judge in California has ruled that the state must change the drugs it uses when executing prisoners, because the current method may constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. US...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has deplored media repression in over 50 countries in its latest annual report . Highlighting unprecedented violence against reporters in the Middle East, it also condemned legal sanctions such as imprisonment and...

Government officials in Haiti have announced plans to form a commission to review the contested results of that country's February 7 election . The commission will be composed of members of the president's...

BBC News is reporting that the UK House of Commons has voted to include the glorification of terrorism as a criminal offense in the proposed Terrorism Bill , overturning the House of Lords on...

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that a law permitting the German air force to shoot down hijacked planes to prevent a suicide attack was unconstitutional ,...

The US government has formally requested the extradition from Canada of Canadian citizen Abdullah Khadr , a week after indicting him on charges of procuring weapons to...