US President George W. Bush on Wednesday defended his authorization of the National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless domestic surveillance program in a visit to the agencys headquarters, saying that the work they do is...
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Enron founder Kenneth Lay and ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling on Wednesday asked the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse its rejection of their motion to change the...
Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge M. Brooke Murdock on Friday ruled against a 1973 state law that prohibits same-sex marriage , declaring that the statute subjects the plaintiff couples to a discriminatory classification...
US District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III of the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday sentenced former Pentagon analyst Lawrence A. Franklin to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for leaking classified information...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Friday unsealed the indictment of eleven people alleged to have carried out a series of arsons causing millions of dollars in damage in five Western states between...
The US military said Thursday that the number of detainees participating in hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay had reached its lowest point since October 2005, but offered no reasons for the dropoff. The number of hunger...
The Iraqi High Criminal Court (IHCC) (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ) confirmed Thursday that Sayeed al-Hamashi, who was selected to preside over the Saddam Hussein trial on Monday, will retain his position despite allegations...
The Human Rights Watch annual report released Wednesday alleges an increasing amount of human rights abuses in Iraq, including torture of detainees and attacks on civilians, and assigns some of the blame to the US and its...
White House spokesperson Scott McClellan Wednesday dismissed findings from the latest Human Rights Watch annual report alleging that the US has made deliberate and blatant use of torture and the inhumane treatment of prisoners in...
UK fathers' rights group Fathers 4 Justice announced Wednesday that it would disband after the Sun newspaper published a report that some of its members planned to abduct the 5-year-old son of British Prime Minister...
