Allen Abney was released from US military custody Thursday evening after his arrest last week for deserting the US Marine Corps in 1968. Abney, now a Canadian citizen, was born in the United States, but grew up...

Judge Fausto Pocar, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , released updated results Friday from the autopsy on Slobodan Milosevic indicating that toxicological tests undertaken by Dutch investigators showed...

The US Navy plans to investigate possible war crimes committed by US troops in a November 2005 Iraq firefight that killed 15 civilians, according to a military official speaking on condition of anonymity Thursday. The incident involved...

The US Justice Department Thursday invoked its authority under the 1965 Voting Rights Act to approve scheduled April 22 municipal elections in New Orleans . African American leaders had pressed the Department to block the...

No federal civil rights charges will be filed in the 1955 killing of Emmett Till , according to an FBI statement issued Thursday citing the expiration of a five year statute of limitations. Till, a 14-year...

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor have both said in recent speeches that they have been the target of death threats. In a speech last...

The European Parliament Thursday urged Senegal to provide for a fair trial of former Chad President Hissene Habre , either in Senegal or through extradition to Belgium, which has issued...

Former Bosnia Serb paramilitary leader Gojko Jankovic pleaded not guilty to war crimes Thursday before the new War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina . Jankovic is the second Bosnian war crimes...

Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006, introduced by Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) and others, March 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill as introduced . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...

Four Republican Senators introduced a bill Thursday that would legalize but limit warrantless domestic surveillance of US citizens. Sponsored by Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio with Olympia Snowe of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South...