A US military jury reduced the rank of Pfc. Willie Brand to private, the lowest pay grade in the army, at his sentencing hearing Thursday. In doing so, the jury disregarded the prosecutor's recommendation that Brand be sentenced to...
Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff , indicted by a federal grand jury on bank fraud charges last week, will plead not guilty, according to a statement made by his lawyer Neal Sonnett Thursday. The charges allege he...
The Federal Election Commission voted 6-0 in favor of Reps. Howard Berman (D-CA) and John Doolittle (R-CA) Thursday to allow members of Congress to raise unlimited funds from unions, corporations and other donors...
Sunni Arab negotiators working on Iraq's draft constitution continue to refuse to compromise their demands for a strong central government in Iraq , fearing that federalism will divide the country. While the Supreme Council for...
The Walt Disney Company asked the nonprofit firm Verite to investigate allegations of labor abuse in factories run by its Chinese contractors, according to a statement Friday. Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) [advocacy...
The Hamburg Supreme Court convicted Mounir el Motassadeq Friday of belonging to a terrorist organization and sentenced him to seven years in prison, but acquitted him of being an accessory to the murder of the over 3,000...
Doe v. US, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 18, 2005 [ruling that congressional legislation that permits medical insurance for US military personnel to pay only for abortions needed to save the life of the mother...
Court documents released Thursday revealed that the US government is arguing that Australian citizen David Hicks should face a military commission trial following an appellate court ruling from a three judge panel that included US...
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that congressional legislation that permits medical insurance for US military personnel to pay only for abortions needed to save the life of the mother was constitutional. The three judge panel from...
The last of the publicly accessible documents authored by US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in storage at the Reagan Library in were released simultaneously Thursday in California and Washington, DC. The thousands of...