US Defense Department officials Wednesday required CNN to erase any footage that might allow Guantanamo prisoners to be identified during a recent visit . Taking up a challenge to reporters from President Bush to come...

Lawyers for US Army Pfc. Lynndie England will request at a pretrial hearing Thursday that Judge Col. James Pohl be removed from the case. Pohl had presided over England's first trial, in which he...

A civil trial of American Electric Power , the nation's biggest power company, opened Wednesday on charges by the government and eight states that it had violated the Clean Air Act . The suit against AEP alleges...

Myanmar's military government announced Thursday that it had released 400 prisoners but refused to name them. The majority of those released are believed to be political prisoners, many of whom are tied to the National League of Democracy party...

A federal judge in Chicago dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking reparations from several companies that benefitted or profited from slavery prior to its abolition. US District Judge Charles R. Norgle ruled that a geneological tie was...

A California National Guard unit known as the Information Synchronization, Knowledge Management and Intelligence Fusion program is under investigation by military authorities to determine whether it was created to spy on civilians. Activists are...

Class representatives amended a complaint against CardSystems Solutions, MasterCard, Visa, and Merrick Bank Thursday, demanding monetary compensation for negligence. The lawsuit stems from a security breach at CardSystems that resulted in the exposure of some 40 million...

Echoing earlier predictions , Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told a gathering of Shiite clerics Thursday that Iraq's new constitution "will be done on schedule". The constitutional commission charged with drafting the charter needs to...

Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky will face new charges of money laundering Thursday along with his partner Platon Lebedev. Lawyers for Khodorovsky say they have no idea what specific charges will be announced,...

Defense lawyer Ziad al-Khasawneh, the head of Saddam Hussein's defense team who announced his resignation Wednesday , said Thursday that his motivation for quitting was repeated efforts by US members of the team to temper his criticism of...