New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has requested federal assistance to pay more than $200 million annually for security for the upcoming trial of five 9/11 suspects, according to a letter made public Wednesday. Bloomberg sent the letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Tuesday, estimating that security would cost about $216 million [...]
US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced new rules for obtaining leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands. The new rules were designed to provide a greater public voice in deciding how the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awards these leases. In a statement, Salazar said, "e need a fresh [...]
Honduran prosecutors on Wednesday filed charges against three military chiefs in connection with the ouster of former president Manuel Zelaya in June. The attorney general's office filed abuse of power charges in the Honduran Supreme Court against armed forces commander Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, air force commander Venancio Cervantes, and naval commander Luis Javier Prince. According [...]
The US Marshals Service will conduct an extensive review of courthouse security nationwide, Assistant Director for Judicial Security Michael Prout told the Associated Press on Wednesday. The announcement of a security review comes just two days after a courthouse official was killed and a deputy marshal was wounded in an attack on a Las Vegas [...]
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the trial over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, will be videotaped and broadcast on YouTube. Judge Vaughn Walker of the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that while the trial will not be broadcast live, it will be recorded [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been indicted on six counts for allegedly attempting to set off an explosive device on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bound from Amsterdam to Detroit last month. Abdulmutallab has been charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, attempted [...]
An Iranian parliamentary inquiry has found that Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi was responsible for the deaths of at least three detainees involved in protests that followed the June 12 presidential election , the conservative Alef website reported Wednesday. The report alleges that Mortazavi, the prosecutor responsible for overseeing the Kahrizak prison, ordered that the prisoners [...]
French Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Wednesday announced plans to create a special judicial service to investigate and charge individuals accused of crimes against humanity and genocide in France or in other countries. The new judicial unit would streamline the prosecution of Rwandans living in France who are accused [...]
Victoria Neilson : "On Monday, with relatively little fanfare, the US closed a chapter on an era of discrimination and intolerance. Since 1987, any non-citizen seeking to enter the US was prohibited from doing so if he or she was HIV-positive, unless he or she met the narrow qualifications for a waiver. Likewise, all applicants [...]
The Malaysian High Court on Wednesday temporarily suspended enforcement of last week's ruling that non-Muslims can use the word "Allah" as a translation for the word "God." The decision came after the Malaysian Home Ministry sought a stay Tuesday. The case was brought by the Herald, a weekly Catholic publication, challenging the Malaysian government's three-year [...]
