New Jersey police said Tuesday that they were only in the initial stages of an investigation that has so far revealed data theft from over 700,000 account holders from four major banks in the US. Ten arrests have been...

FBI lawyers speaking in front of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday asked for sweeping new powers to seize records from private citizens and businesses in terrorism investigations without first obtaining a judge's approval....

Supporters of the International Court of Justice and international law have been mildly encouraged by showings of at least mild deference to the ICJ by most members of the US Supreme Court Court in its closely watched Medellin ruling...

Lawyers for Pfc. Lynndie England on Tuesday decided to forgo her right to challenge the seven charges she faces for her role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal . England defense attorney Capt. Jonathon Crisp...

Six Pitcairn Island men, found guilty of multiple sexual abuse charges in October 2004 , have lost their appeal in the Pitcairn Supreme Court sitting in Auckland, New Zealand. The Court denied all of the defense's arguments, including...

Upon reconsidering its former ban on reformist candidates, Iran's Guardian Council has now officially reinstated former higher education minister Mostafa Moin and incumbent Vice President Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh as candidates in the...

Memorandum of Understanding on Judicial Nominations, US Senate, May 23, 2005 . Excerpt:Signatories will...

The US Senate Tuesday prepared to confirm Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday following a bipartisan deal reached Monday night that avoided a showdown...

Spain's Interior Ministry Tuesday announced the arrests of three more suspects in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombing , al-Qaeda's deadliest attack on Europe. The three Moroccan men, Mourad Bhar, 20, Abdelkhalak Chergui, 29, and Abdelhak Chergui,...

Johanns v. Livestock Marketing Association, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Scalia, May 23, 2005 [ruling that the government had the right to force beef producers to pay for a multi-million dollar marketing campaign even though some individual cattle...