Monica M. Goodling, on leave from her post as special counsel to the US Attorney General, told the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that she will not speak to the committee about her role in last year's...

US v. David Matthew Hicks, Offer for a Pretrial Agreement, US Office of Military Commissions, March 26, 2007 . Read the full text of the plea agreement]. Reported...

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) on Tuesday unexpectedly vetoed a bill that would have required girls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. AP reported that Richardson, who last...

Dhiren Barot , a British man who pleaded guilty in October to planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, filed an appeal in London’s Court of Appeal Criminal Division Tuesday. Barot...

The anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanon parliament on Tuesday approved a petition asking UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to create a tribunal to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri...

President Bush urged Congress on Tuesday to adopt his proposed targets for alternative fuel use as a way of combating greenhouse gas emissions a day after the US Supreme...

US District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California approved the release Tuesday of jailed video journalist and blogger Josh Wolf , who was imprisoned for 226 days, longer than any other...

United States intelligence agents from the FBI and the CIA have been using secret prisons in Ethiopia to conduct interrogations, according to AP Tuesday. The report...

A meeting to sort out remaining differences over the rules governing the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal in Cambodia has been delayed after the Cambodian Bar Association (BAKC) refused to compromise on fees for...

A court of appeals in Thailand Tuesday refused to extradite dissident Ly Tong to Vietnam for using a hijacked plane to drop anti-communist leaflets over Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon)...