CNN is reporting that Democratic Senator John Kerry, joined by Edward Kennedy and perhaps other Democrats will attempt a filibuster to block the US Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito . Kerry, currently in Switzerland attending...

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Thursday that ChoicePoint will be required to pay $10 million in civil penalties and $5 million to customers affected by last year's identity theft incident...

A federal judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought in 2004 by two US Army National Guard soldiers that claimed the Army fraudulently induced them to enlist by failing to inform them that they could be...

US Senate Democrats Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Ken Salazar (D-CO) Thursday urged US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to appoint a special counsel to lead the investigation of Jack Abramoff and...

West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin signed a mine safety bill Thursday S. 247 requiring mines to provide wireless emergency communicators, tracking devices and extra air supplies to their miners. The West Virginia Legislature [official...

Khalil Dulaimi, chief defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Thursday following up on earlier defense statements that the ousted Iraqi leader intends "very soon" to sue US President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense...

An effort to increase the detention period for terror suspects in the UK from 28 days to 60 days was defeated Wednesday in the House of Lords by a vote of 210-108. Under current law [Criminal Justice...

US Attorney McGregor Scott of the Eastern District of California has announced the indictments of three people for ecoterrorism on federal charges of conspiracy to use fire or explosives to damage property. The three defendants,...

The European Parliament , which has launched an investigation into allegations that the CIA illegally operated secret jails in Romania and Poland and covertly flew detainees through Italy, Germany and Poland, said...

Parliamentarians of the Council of Europe , often referred to as Europe's human rights watchdog body, have approved a resolution which condemns crimes committed by communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe during the...