Nepalese lawmakers pressing for wide-ranging changes to the country's constitution called Saturday for King Gyanendra to give up control of the army to put out of his reach a key instrument...
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Lester Crawford , the embattled former head of the US Food and Drug Administration who stepped down in September 2005 after only three months in office in the midst of a furor over the...
The British lawyer serving as chief prosecutor for the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone , the West African war crimes court that will try recently-captured ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor for war crimes and crimes...
The US Department of Justice says it will ask a federal judge to dismiss a class-action suit launched in January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a cyberspace privacy group, against telecommunications giant AT&T...
The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals Friday overturned a Pittsburgh municipality ordinance requiring canvassers to register with police before going door to door. The ACLU filed suit on behalf of a local of the...
A spokesman for the Administrative Office of the US Courts said Friday that creating an inspector general for the federal judiciary to investigate possible ethical violations by federal judges "would be a serious incursion into judicial independence"...
In the latest legal assault on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , conservative business organization the Free Enterprise Fund has asked former US solicitor general and Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr , former US assistant attorney general...
The UN Security Council Friday passed a wide-ranging resolution on duties to civilians in armed conflict that included a landmark affirmation of an international responsibility to protect in the face of war crimes, genocide and ethic cleansing when...
A Review of the FBI's Investigative Activities Concerning Potential Protesters at the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Political Conventions, Special Report, US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, April 2006. Read the full text of the report ....
The US Army announced late Friday that it has charged Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, former head of interrogation operations at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison , with seven violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice ,...
