FBI Director Robert Mueller suggested to the House Appropriations Committee in testimony Tuesday that terror suspects be legally prohibited from buying guns. Under current federal regulatory practice, highlighted yesterday in a new Government Accountability Office...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke offered additional concessions on the British government's proposed Prevention of Terrorism Bill Wednesday after the legislation came back from the upper chamber House of Lords riddled with amendments designed to protect...

Ramush Haradinaj, who resigned yesterday as Kosovo prime minister after being indicted for war crimes in connection with his activities while a senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army in the late 1990s, flew to...

United Nations Declaration on Human Cloing, adopted by resolution of the UN General Assembly, March 8, 2005. Read the full text of the Declaration prefaced with explanatory remarks. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Log of (and links to) Army CID reports of investigations into US treatment of prisoners in Iraq, US Department of Defense, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, March 4, 2005 [covering...

A bill that would make consumers satisfy a series of requirements before being permitted to cancel their debts through bankruptcy is close to passage in the US Senate. On Tuesday the Senate killed what some Republicans called a "poisoned...

Initial reactions by Senators on both sides of the aisle prompted speculation Tuesday that Monday's nomination of Under-Secretary of State John Bolton to be the new US ambassador to the UN could be problematic, or at least...

The US has indicated in a Supreme Court filing that it has asked the state of Texas to rehear the cases of 51 Mexicans whose death sentences were recently deemed improper by the...

Senior Shiite political leaders said Tuesday that the trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity should get under way before any vote is taken on a new permanent constitution for Iraq. Muwafaq al-Rubaie, a national...

New York Deputy Attorney General Dietrich Snell, former senior counsel to the now-defunct 9/11 Commission, testified as anticipated Tuesday before a German court retrying the case of Mounir el Motassadeq , a Moroccan accused of being...