Human rights groups criticized Bush pick for intelligence director nominee John Negroponte Friday, stating the current US ambassador to Iraq has a record of supporting human rights violations. Critics allege that during his role as ambassador to...

US District Court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee sentenced former Boeing CFO Michael Sears to four months in prison Friday for aiding and abetting illegal employment negotiations . Sears pleaded guilty in November to charges that he offered then-Air...

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe announced Friday that he will be holding elections as required by the original Togolese constitution. Faure had been placed in power by Togo's military and had had the constitution changed to...

Moussaoui v. United States, brief in opposition to certiorari petition by Zacarias Moussaoui to the US Supreme Court, US Department of Justice, redacted version filed February 17, 2005 . Review the redacted...

Report on the Implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, National Review Board, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, February 18, 2005 [reporting that the past year has produced 1,092 new allegations of sexual abuse...

The defense team for Pfc. Lynndie England , accused in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, said Friday that military prosecutors have now filed a new and reduced set of charges against her that could substantially reduce...

US District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled Friday that two lawsuits against the Federal Election Commission should be combinced, calling their claims "virtually identical." The 2004 Bush campaign and Reps. Christopher Shays, R-Conn. and Marty Meehan,...

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a statement Friday that an independent Commission of Experts would be appointed to access progress made in Timor-Leste (East Timor) and Indonesia in adjudicating human rights violations that occurred in 1999 when...

An auditing commission appointed by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops reported Friday that the past year has produced 1,092 new allegations of sexual abuse against at least 756 Catholic clergymen. The disclosure of figures came in the national...

Mark Thatcher , son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, appeared in a South African court Friday to answer questions about his role in an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea [official website; US...