The US Justice Department Offices of Inspector General and Professional Responsibility concluded in a report issued Monday that department aides illegally made hiring decisions based on consideration of applicants' political and ideological beliefs. In early...

A report released Monday by Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq indicates that officials for Palestinian security and military agencies frequently detain, torture and mistreat citizens from the Gaza Strip and the West...

Newspapers in Tennessee, California, Georgia, and Ohio and several other states carried editorials Monday in support of US Senate passage of a proposed federal reporter shield law , of the law, citing the...

New poll results released Sunday by think tank Open Europe indicate that Irish voters do not support a second referendum on the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty...

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit Thursday against international trading fund Optiver Holding BV and some of its subsidiaries and employees, alleging that the company...

Three Department of Justice (DOJ) memos released Thursday indicate that certain enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding , are lawful and that those who employ them in good faith lack the specific intent required to...

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) said during a Committee hearing Friday that providing inducements to those who hold liens was the only practical legislative solution to the country's so-called "sub-prime mortgage collapse," and...

Lawyers and professors testified before the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Thursday that the government process used to arrest and convict illegal immigrants in Iowa in May was illegal and violated the immigrants'...

Officials at the US Chamber of Commerce's affiliate, the Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) , said in a report released Thursday that the system of heavy securities class action litigation in the US is...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday convicted a Kosovar journalist on contempt of court charges and fined him 7,000 euros for revealing the identity of a witness in...