The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Graham County Soil & Water Conservation Dist. v. United States ex rel. Wilson [oral arguments transcript, PDF;...
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The conflict-ravaged nations of Somalia, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan, and Iraq rank among the world's most corrupt, according to the 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) prepared by Transparency International (TI) . The index, released Tuesday, ranked...
Virginia authorities on Tuesday executed a prisoner by electric chair , conducting the country's first execution by electrocution in over a year. Former Army counterintelligence worker Larry Bill Elliott, who was convicted of a 2001 double murder,...
US Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr will likely be tried in the US military commission system. Speaking during a news conference Friday...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In Kucana v. Holder , the Court heard arguments on whether a federal...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Friday that it has assigned three judges to the situation involving the violence perpetrated in the wake of Kenya's 2007 presidential elections . The decision...
The US should reform its detention policy at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in order to combat counterinsurgency, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights First (HRF) . HRF...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Pottawattamie County v. McGhee , the Court heard arguments on whether a...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in three cases. In NRG Power Marketing v. Maine Public Utilities , the Court heard arguments...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in three cases. In Jones v. Harris Associates , the Court heard arguments on whether a...
