Documents on FBI monitoring of anti-war activities by the Pittsburgh-based Thomas Merton Center for Peace & Justice, released by the ACLU pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, March 14, 2006. Read the documents as listed on an ACLU...

Denmark's Director of Public Prosecutions Henning Fode has decided not to press criminal charges against Jyllands-Posten , the Danish newspaper that first published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad which last month...

Four former senior Kenyan government officials and a top businessman are to be charged with corruption for their roles in a $1 billion scam known as the Goldenberg affair . The graft charges will be the...

The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed a record $3.6 million fine against CBS, its stations and affiliates for violating decency standards by airing a graphic sex scene in the program "Without a Trace." The...

Zimbabwe prosecutors have dropped charges against six men accused of a plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe , according to lawyers involved in the case speaking Wednesday. Media reports originally indicated that eight men had been charged, but...

A panel of judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday convicted former Bosnian Muslim General Enver Hadzihasanovic and former Brigadier Amir Kubura for their...

New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer Wednesday launched a $250 million lawsuit against H&R Block , the largest tax preparation service in the US, for fraudulently coaxing its customers into a retirement account plan...

British police arrested five men on Wednesday for their suspected role in protests staged outside the Danish embassy in London on February 3 and 4 against the publication of Muhammad cartoons that first appeared in a...

A lawyer for Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith, a medical officer in the UK's Royal Air Force , argued in a pre-trial military hearing Wednesday that his client was entitled to say in a court-martial defense against five charges...

AP is reporting that the UN General Assembly has approved a resolution creating a new Human Rights Council by a 170-4 vote, despite US opposition. The new rights body will replace the widely criticized Commission...