Text of a letter to Vice President Dick Cheney from US Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, June 7, 2006 [complaining of Cheney's actions in brokering a deal with Committee member Orrin Hatch without Specter's knowledge that...

Vice President Dick Cheney Thursday met accusations from Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) that he had interfered with Specter's proposal to have his committee subpoena three phone companies accused of allegedly providing records to the National Security Administration...

Supporters of repealing the federal estate tax failed Wednesday to get enough votes to begin floor debate on the Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2005 , which would allow wealthy families to avoid the estate tax,...

The first commissioned US military officer to publicly refuse to join the war in Iraq did so Wednesday, calling the war "unlawful" in a taped statement played at a press conference in Tacoma, Washington, near the US...

Wednesday's Council of Europe (COE) report accusing 14 European countries of taking an active or passive role in a "global spider's web" of secret CIA prisons and rendition flights [JURIST news...

Human Rights Watch accused Sudan's Special Criminal Court on the Events in Darfur of failing to accomplish its mission of prosecuting war crimes, in a briefing paper released Thursday. In a press release , a...

In retaliation for a travel ban imposed on several Belarus leaders by the European Union and the United States , Belarus Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Popov said Thursday that Belarus will impose retaliatory travel bans on...

A Russia-based international human rights group claimed Wednesday that it has turned over to authorities documentary proof of the existence of Russian-operated secret prisons in Chechnya which the group claimed to have discovered in a southern district...

The Canadian government intends to introduce new anti-terror legislation this fall that would fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism, particularly in the area of diamond sales, the Globe and Mail reported Thursday. The legislation is expected to...

The US Department of Justice has said it will seek to dismiss 20 lawsuits accusing telecommunications companies Verizon, AT&T, and BellSouth of illegally providing customer phone records to the National Security Agency in...