The US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure to seize land on Mount Soledad in San Diego, thus permitting the First Amendment , rather than the California constitution, to control the issue of whether...

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has completed its probe into the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November, and a Pentagon official indicated Wednesday that evidence supports accusations that US Marines from...

Members of the 9/11 Commission considered asking the US Justice Department to investigate suspected deception by government officials intended to hide mistakes in the Pentagon's response to the Sept. 11 attacks , the Washington Post...

Mexican Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal criticized presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and supporters staging protests in Mexico City, saying Tuesday that the protestors have set up...

US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Tuesday that the White House has changed its position on military commissions , and now favors an approach that would try suspected terrorist detainees under...

Ten permanent resident immigrants sued the federal government on Tuesday, arguing that their naturalization applications have been unnecessarily delayed by "the bureaucratic failings and callous inaction" of the FBI and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in...

The US military has banned the media and public from observing witness testimony of Iraqis in upcoming Article 32 hearings for five US Army soldiers charged in connection with the rape of an Iraqi...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday reversed the convictions of four former Merrill Lynch executives found guilty in connection with an Enron ...

The US Senate voted 71-25 Tuesday to approve the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 , which would allow oil and gas drilling in about 8.3 million acres of federal waters...

Authorities in Burundi on Tuesday arrested five former government officials, including Vice President Alphonse Kadege, as well as a rebel leader and two others suspected of plotting a coup to overthrow the African nation's government, according to...