UK Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald said Tuesday that there is no "war on terror" in Britain and warned that inappropriate measures driven by fear threaten an accused's right to a fair trial. In a speech...

A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of NHL players against Ted Saskin, head of the National Hockey League Players' Association . Judge Suzanne B....

President Bush pressed for comprehensive immigration reform in his State of Union address Tuesday night, urging US lawmakers to take action to secure US borders, enhance interior and worksite enforcement of immigration laws, create...

City of Farmers Branch, Ordinance 2903, January 22, 2006 [revising a city ordinance requiring apartment renters to show proof of US residency and penalizing landlords who rent to illegal immigrants; the revised ordinance will not require minors and tenants who...

State Farm insurance company reached a settlement Tuesday with hundreds of Mississippi policyholders whose claims were denied after Hurricane Katrina , bringing an end to a trial that began January 9 in the...

The US House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Tuesday to deny retirement pensions to any member of Congress "convicted of any of certain offenses," including fraud, bribery and perjury. Currently, federal lawmakers can...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Tuesday that he was unaware of a US offer to release Guantanamo Bay detainee Murat Kurnaz , a German-born Turk, to Germany in 2002 notwithstanding a finding by a...

The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday postponed the scheduled sentencing of former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr. Lester M. Crawford until February 27. Crawford previously pleaded...

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld a prior ruling to shut down the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society , a small NGO that reported on human rights violations and disappearances in the Northern Caucasus. The...

The Iraqi High Tribunal heard more tapes on Tuesday in which the voice of defendant Ali Hassan al-Majid vowed to "leave no Kurd who speaks the Kurd language" and to "wipe...