US senators debated Monday evening the possibility of extending the USA Patriot Act only temporarily, from as little as three months to as long as four years, in response to President Bush's statement earlier...

New trials have begun in Uzbekistan for fifty-eight people charged with terrorism, religious extremism and other serious crimes stemming from the death of as many as 1,000 villagers in the Uzbek city of Andijan, the country's...

Samsung , the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, has pleaded guilty to criminal antitrust charges and was ordered pay a $300 million fine, the second largest fine in a criminal antitrust case, for conspiring...

Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade has called for the creation of an African tribunal that would hear abuse charges against the continent's "dictators", similar to those leveled against former Chad President Hissene Habre . Wade's comments come as Habre...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has warned that the Nepalese government and Maoist rebels must take "steps towards lasting peace" in order to avoid "grave violations of human rights...

The city of York, Pennsylvania, will pay a $2 million settlement to the relatives of a black woman shot to death during race riots in 1969. The two children and two sisters of Lilly Belle Allen will get a...

One of Canada's top law firms has agreed to pay a $30 million settlement to former client Hollinger International for its role in failing to act in Hollinger's best interest during a series of now infamous transactions...

Army prosecutors Wednesday dropped charges against a US soldier accused of abusing a mentally retarded detainee in Afghanistan . Spec. Nathan A. Jones was accused of kneeing or kicking the detainee in the thigh at...

A law requiring women seeking an abortion in Indiana to undergo counseling about medical risks and abortion-alternatives and wait at least 18 hours after the session before obtaining an abortion has been upheld against facial challenges by the Indiana...

An unassuming law office outside of Memphis, Tennessee has been implicated in a Spanish investigation into whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has secretly flown terror suspects to other countries for intense questioning and...