Lobbyist Jack Abramoff on Wednesday began serving his six-year prison sentence on fraud and conspiracy charges. Abramoff will serve his sentence at a minimum-security facility in Cumberland, MD, a location close to the Washington, DC prosecutors...

US v. Libby, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, November 14, 2006 [ruling the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's proposal to limit what classified evidence Libby can present to the jury in the CIA leak case is too...

US Marines Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III will face court-martial for his role in the April kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania , the US Marine Corps announced Tuesday....

War crimes complaint against former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials and advisors filed with the German Federal Prosecutor on behalf of eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have been...

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton denounced the disparity in federal sentencing requirements for possession of crack cocaine and cocaine powder in testimony Tuesday before the US Sentencing Commission . Citing the 100-1 differential...

US Marine Cpl. Trent D. Thomas pleaded not guilty Tuesday at his arraignment hearing to charges of murder, kidnapping, and other offenses related to the death of an Iraqi man in Hamdania ....

Incoming US Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) said Tuesday that his committee's priorities will include an investigation into CIA extraordinary rendition flights . In an interview with the Financial Times,...

Bosnia's national war crimes court sentenced a former Bosnian Serb soldier to 16 years in prison Tuesday in the first judgment handed down against a defendant transferred to Bosnia from the International Criminal Tribunal...

UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith said Tuesday in an interview on BBC Radio 4 that he wants to examine whether new religious hate legislation passed in Parliament earlier this year and scheduled...

The UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights has said that Britain's Human Rights Act has "been used as a convenient scapegoat for unrelated administrative failings within government," in a new report...