In an address to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club public affairs forum Friday, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski said that ample evidence exists to prove the use of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison was...

During the weekly Democratic radio address Saturday, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid defended his party's position in the current battle between Democrats and Republicans over President Bush's judicial nominees and procedures used...

The CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce Friday called for the US Department of Justice to investigate allegations of widespread fraud in asbestos lawsuits. The letter sent by Thomas Donohue alleges that lawyers and...

Anglican cleric Father Paul Williamson filed a last-minute legal objection to the marriage of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles at the civic offices in Windsor Saturday just before the couple's civil marriage ceremony [British...

Identities and details concerning the cases and treatment of some 60 Guantanamo detainees have emerged from thousands of pages of transcribed documentation filed by detainees' lawyers in US District Court in Washington, where lawsuits challenging the...

In a turnaround from its position just a day earlier, the Environmental Protection Agency canceled a controversial study Friday involving the effects of pesticides on children. The EPA had planned to seek the advice of outside scientific...

United States v. Hansl, United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Central Division, Judge Robert Pratt, April 8, 2005 ....

Joint Doctrine for Detainee Operations, US Department of Defense, March 23, 2005 [proposed guidelines concerning the detention of enemy combatants extends the status normally reserved for members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban to anyone affiliated with terrorists or terrorist groups...

US District Judge Robert Pratt ruled Friday that a former Nazi guard who became a US citizen must relinquish his naturalization papers and passport. John Hansl of Des Moines Iowa, now 80, came to the United States under a...

Michael Ross testified Friday at a hearing that he wants to be executed next month, defending his right to give up his death-row appeals. Ross says that he wants to spare his victims' families additional agony, but...