US Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter said Wednesday that the US Defense Department was blocking an investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee into a highly-classified Army intelligence program that allegedly identified four of the...

Hamdi Issac, one of four suspects in a spate of failed bomb attacks in London on July 21, will be extradited Thursday to the UK, Italian sources reported Wednesday. The Italian high court had previously upheld a...

Court-martial proceedings against Pfc. Lynndie England , 22, one of the highest-profile but lowest-ranking suspects in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, began Wednesday in Fort Hood, Texas, with jury selection and...

Eight Democratic governors have called on President Bush and Congress to investigate reports of gas price gouging following Hurricane Katrina . Citing a study by a University of Wisconsin economist that concluded rising gas prices...

A group of European legislators have accused Italy of violating international human rights laws in its treatment of refugees after visiting a camp for asylum seekers on the island of Lampedusa . The 12 socialist MEPs said conditions...

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told reporters in Brussels Wednesday that he does not expect a European constitution for another two to three years. While referendum failures in France and the...

AP is reporting that a federal judge has approved settlements worth over $6 billion in civil litigation related to the WorldCom accounting fraud .1:49 PM ET - Under the deals approved by District Judge Denise Cote, several...

Harvard Law School will open its career services office to military recruiters beginning this fall, despite the Pentagon's refusal to sign the school's nondiscrimination pledge, Dean Elena Kagan said Tuesday in a letter to...

The US House Resources Committee is considering Wednesday possible changes to the Endangered Species Act , which has been in effect for 32 years. Rep. Richard Pombo has introduced the bipartisan Threatened...

A commission investigating the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze five years ago reported their findings Wednesday, concluding that the slaying was instigated by former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and the current speaker of the Ukrainian...