Prosecutors presented opening statements in the trial of nursing home owners Salvador and Mabel Mangano Thursday, saying that the operators of St. Rita's Nursing Home were criminally negligent for their failure to comply with the mandatory evacuation order during...

US Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on Thursday asked Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine to investigate potentially misleading or dishonest testimony given in previous hearings by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ...

A former Marine sergeant has been charged with two counts of voluntary manslaughter for killing two Iraqi insurgents during the Multinational National Force-Iraq's November 2004 offensive in Fallujah , his lawyers said Thursday. Jose Nazario will be arraigned...

Personal notes by FBI Director Robert Mueller released Thursday reveal that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft was "feeble, barely articulate, clearly stressed" when current Attorney General and then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales confronted...

Letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine, US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, August 16, 2007 [requesting the inspector general to investigate potentially misleading or dishonest testimony given by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before the Senate...

FBI Director Robert Mueller's personal notes, Federal Bureau of Investigation, August 14, 2007 [released personal notes revealing that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft was "feeble, barely articulate, and clearly stressed" during a confrontation with then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales...

A federal jury found Jose Padilla and his two co-defendants guilty Thursday on all charges against them. Padilla, Adham Amin Hassoun, and Kifah Wael Jayyousi were convicted of conspiracy to commit illegal violent acts...

The lead counsel for former Liberian president Charles Taylor Wednesday urged the UN Security Council to lift its travel ban against individuals deemed to be threats to the peace...

The government of the Netherlands is close to reaching an agreement with the United Nations to host the ad hoc tribunal that will investigate and try suspects involved in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani announced the formation of a new coalition government Thursday, formally signing an agreement with Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council leader Adil Abdul-Mahdi and Kurdistan Democratic Party of...