US District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania John R. Padova ruled Friday that the US Department of Defense does not have the authority to dissolve a Pennsylvania National Guard division without approval of Governor Ed...
Sexual Harassment & Violence at the Military Service Academies Report, United States Department of Defense, August 25, 2005 [report announcing that despite some progress, hostile attitudes and inappropriate treatment of women persist at the US Military Academy at West Point...
Syria is ready to assist the UN investigation into the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , a Syrian foreign ministry official told AFP Friday. Lebanese news reports said that German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis [JURIST...
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani announced Friday that Iran is not concerned about possible UN Security Council action on its continued uranium enrichment activities but said that the nation planned to present new ideas...
Four California Republican lawmakers have announced that they will introduce legislation which would give California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the ability to declare a state of emergency along the border with Mexico. Current California law allows the governor...
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has ended his four-day hunger strike , his lawyer announced Friday. Khodorkovsky began the protest after his business partner and co-defendant Platon Lebedev was placed in solitary...
Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge James L. Ryan issued an order Thursday allowing corrections officials to forcibly feed and hydrate John Allen Muhammad , who received the death penalty for a murder during the 2002 Beltway...
DNA evidence has confirmed that remains exhumed from a suburban Chicago cemetery in June are those of Emmett Till , a 14-year-old African American boy slain in Mississippi in 1955. The exhumation was the final step...
Lawyers for Osman Hussein , apprehended in Rome as a suspect in the failed July 21 London bombing attacks , Friday challenged an Italian court's approval of his extradition to Britain . According to...
US Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) has asked the FBI for "all information and documents it has" pertaining to "Able Danger" , the US Army intelligence program alleged to have identified Mohammed Atta ...