Former media magnate Conrad Black is suing the US government, alleging the Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly seized nearly $9 million of his money. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Chicago, Black claimed the funds...
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Five Kuwaiti citizens have been released from the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay , Kuwait Foreign Ministry officials confirmed Thursday. The five men are among 11 Kuwaitis who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo for...
A UK judge has directed court-martial panel members to issue a 'not guilty' verdict for all seven British soldiers charged with the murdering an Iraqi civilian in southern Iraq. The seven paratroopers were accused of killing an...
The number of adults in prison is on the rise in the United States, according to a report released by the US Justice Department Wednesday. Nearly 7 million adults were in US prisons,...
The Australian Senate on Thursday hurriedly passed an amendment to the country's current counter-terrorism legislation the day after Prime Minister John Howard warned of a credible terror attack. Responding to the threat, Howard proposed an...
The Austin American-Statesman is reporting that Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle has requested that Administrative Judge B.B. Schraub be replaced in the Tom DeLay case. Schraub had been tasked with naming...
The Nigerian Federal High Court has ruled that two Nigerians who were tortured and mutilated in Sierra Leone can challenge Nigeria's decision to grant asylum to former Liberian President Charles Taylor . Taylor was granted asylum in Nigeria...
Denver voters have approved a measure that makes it the first large American city to legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The measure, which passed with 54 percent of the vote , allows adults 21 and...
The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday not to exempt online political expression - blogs, emails, and other forms of Internet communication - from campaign finance laws . Lawmakers had warned that the Internet may have...
James Fields et. al v. Palmdale School District, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Judge Stephen Reinhart, November 2, 2005 [dismissing a lawsuit brought by parents who were angered by a sex survey given to their students in...
