2004 Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, FBI, June 6, 2005 . Excerpt:The number of violent crimes reported to law enforcement agencies in the...

The US Senate Finance Committee released a report Tuesday saying stricter laws may be necessary to prevent insider deals, regulate moneymaking ventures, and open more activities to public scrutiny in large nonprofit organizations. The recommendation follows a two-year investigation...

A criminal investigation has been launched against Florida A and M University for alleged misuse of taxpayer monies, and interim University president Castell Bryant announced Tuesday that A and M law school dean Percy Luney, Jr. had...

The US Senate Intelligence Committee late Tuesday approved revisions to the Patriot Act which would expand the FBI's power to subpoena records in terrorism investigations without receiving the approval of a judge or grand...

Former US President Jimmy Carter closed a two-day human rights conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta Tuesday by saying that the US should close the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp and two...

Republican Congressman Henry Hyde , chair of the House International Relations Committee, introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives Tuesday calling for broad reforms to the UN. The UN Reform Act of 2005 alleges that...

The US military announced Tuesday that a riot broke out at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison over the weekend after an inmate made a failed attempt to escape from the prison. The "disturbance" took place late Sunday...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail has told reporters that the Sudan government is not planning to challenge the recently announced probe into Darfur by the International Criminal Court . Ismail reiterated,...

Prosecutors for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia said Tuesday that they will not appeal the provisional release of former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj . A trial chamber...

UN war crimes prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia introduced evidence Tuesday that former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic used his police forces to directly control a brutal Serbian paramilitary group called...