Members of the US House and Senate have abandoned plans to split the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , dropping the proposal from the budget reconciliation bill. House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner had introduced...

Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio , who watched the market value of his company decline over $100 billion, has been indicted on 42 counts of insider trading for allegedly selling off more than $100 million in Qwest stock,...

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter has said that he will ask US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito about the constitutionality of President Bush's authorization of domestic spying . In a letter...

A Chilean appeals court has again upheld indictments against former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet for his role in the disappearance of three dissidents who went missing in the early years of his 1973-1990 regime....

Press Briefing by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and General Michael Hayden, Principal Deputy Director for National Intelligence on the legal issues surrounding the NSA authorization of domestic surveillance, December 19, 2005. Read the full text of the briefing. Reported...

AP is reporting that a federal judge has ruled that "intelligent design" cannot be taught in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district. US District Judge John E. Jones III ruled Tuesday that the Dover Area School District...

The trial of five former members of a Serbian paramilitary group charged with the videotaped execution of six Bosnian Muslims during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre began in Belgrade Tuesday. The five defendants, members of...

US senators debated Monday evening the possibility of extending the USA Patriot Act only temporarily, from as little as three months to as long as four years, in response to President Bush's statement earlier...

Five members of the elite US Army 75th Ranger Regiment have been sentenced for up to six months for abusing detainees in Iraq. The five soldiers were charged last month in connection with a September...

Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein said Tuesday that the former Iraqi ruler will be in court when his trial resumes Wednesday. During proceedings earlier this month, Hussein boycotted a trial session ...