The Nigerian Senate has passed a resolution calling for the executive to abolish a pact made with the United States that said neither country will turn over suspected war criminals to the Hague's International Criminal...

A majority of jurors in a Republic of Congo court have acquitted 15 senior level military and police officials accused of orchestrating the 1999 disappearance of over 300 refugees returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the...

In a Slate article published Wednesday, legal ethicists Stephen Gillers, David Luban and Steven Lubet claim that the White House violated the law when it interviewed Judge John Roberts this spring for the US Supreme...

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe introduced Thursday a highly controversial constitutional reform bill to the Zimbabwean Parliament . The constitutional amendment bill contains proposed changes to the Zimbabwean Constitution that leaders in the MDC...

Lawyers representing the family of Brazilian citizen Jean Charles de Menezes, mistakenly killed by police who thought they were pursuing a suspect in the July 21 London bombing , have accused Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian...

The National Archives began an investigation Wednesday into the disappearance of a file containing papers authored by US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts on affirmative action. Officials said the file disappeared ...

Vladimiro Montesinos , a close aide of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Peru's former intelligence chief, went on trial Wednesday on charges that he ordered the massacres of Maoist rebel supporters by paramilitary death...

Federal Tort Trials and Verdicts, 2002-03, United States Department of Justice, August 17, 2005 . Excerpt:From 1985 to 2003 the number...

David Satterfield, the number-two diplomat at the US Embassy in Baghdad, is allegedly one of the anonymous government officials said to have disclosed classified information to a Department of Defense analyst and two former officials of the pro-Israel lobbying...

AP is reporting that Ohio Governor Bob Taft will plead no contest to charges that he improperly failed to report golf outings and other gifts.1:22 PM ET - Taft was fined $4,000 but will not...