Rwandan officials announced Friday they will not pursue criminal charges against fugitive Hutu rebels that were aged 14 or younger at the time of Rwanda's 1994 genocide . Children as young as 10 years old took part in...

Bosnian Serb President Dragan Cavic Friday denounced the brutal killing of six Bosnian Muslim youths by Serb paramilitaries recorded on video in Srebrenica in 1995 and shown on Serbian television after being introduced in evidence...

A panel of three federal judges Thursday reaffirmed an earlier decision to reject a legal challenge to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan , concluding the plan was consistent with federal law and the Constitution. In...

A father and son who were arrested in Lodi, California on charges of lying to the FBI about attending an al-Qaida terrorist training camp, are challenging the government for releasing 2 significantly different affidavits to the media...

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Friday denounced the deportation of four Uzbek men from Kyrgyzstan and appealed to the Kyrgyz government to cease further deportation of asylum seekers until procedures determine if they are refugees...

Speaking in San Francisco Thursday, ACLU national executive director Anthony Romero criticized parts of the Patriot Act and urged judicial review and public scrutiny of any investigations into alleged terrorism. Romero, who was responding in part to...

A lawyer for Saddam Hussein said in a BBC interview broadcast Friday that his legal team had not yet received any list of formal charges, despite the Iraqi government's statement that the former Iraqi president's Saddam Hussein's...

The US Senate confirmed Judges David McKeague and Richard Griffin to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Thursday by 96-0 and 95-0 votes, respectively. The confirmations came the...

Senior Vice President at Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary General Re Richard Napier pleaded guilty Friday to helping international insurance giant AIG misstate its finances. Both Napier and former General Re executive John Houldsworth, who...

The Washington-based monitoring group Human Rights First has released a new report detailing a significant rise in violent hate crimes against Jews, Muslims, and immigrants in Europe. In France, anti-Semitic hate crimes rose...