US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , outgoing chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , has introduced a new bill, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Oversight and Resource Enhancement Act of 2006 , that would...

Former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn pleaded not guilty Wednesday to four felony charges stemming from her role in the corporate spying scandal . Dunn is one of five...

The German Federal Court of Justice Thursday found Moroccan-born Mounir al-Motassadeq guilty of assisting the men who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the US. The...

US President George Bush on Wednesday renominated six candidates for federal appeals court judgeships, at least four of whom Democrats have already rejected . Senate rules require nominations to be resubmitted after a recess longer...

US Marine Corps Pfc. John J. Jodka III was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in military custody for his role in the murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania last spring. Jodka,...

A federal jury sitting in New Orleans ruled Wednesday that Merck & Co. , makers of the painkiller Vioxx that was withdrawn from the market after it was found to expose users to...

Former Enron accounting chief Richard Causey received a 66-month prison sentence Wednesday for authorizing bookkeeping practices that allowed Enron to defraud investors of billions of dollars. Under the original slate of 35 charges against...

Lawyers for Saifullah Paracha , a multimillionaire from Pakistan in US custody at Guantanamo Bay , petitioned a federal court Wednesday to enjoin the US military from performing a cardiac catheterization because...

The High Court of Ireland held Wednesday that the protection of an unborn's right to life under Article 40 of the Irish Constitution does not include the preservation of embryos frozen as a part of...

Pakistan's National Assembly , the lower house of parliament, passed the 2006 Protection of Women Bill Wednesday, transferring rape case jurisdiction from religious Sharia courts to civil courts. The bill also classifies rape under...