Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts released his first year-end report on the federal judiciary Sunday, one of his duties as the highest judicial officer in the country. After acknowledging...

One day after the Syrian parliament demanded that former Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam be tried for treason and corruption, the country's ruling Baath party decided Sunday to expel Khaddam from the party after...

President Bush on Sunday defended the NSA warrantless surveillance program , saying the program was "limited" and was not a violation of civil liberties. Answering questions about the program during a visit to wounded troops at the...

Many new state laws took effect on Sunday, including measures to safeguard against child sex offenders and the misuse of personal information. Michigan strengthened its sex offender laws, and Illinois banned human trafficking, allowing state...

Statement on signing 2006 defense spending bill, President George W. Bush, December 30, 2005 [statement on HR 2863, containing the so-called McCain Amendment banning the cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees and the Graham-Levin Amendment limiting habeas jurisdiction for claims...

Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, as included in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006 and agreed to by the US House and Senate and signed by President Bush, December 30, 2005 [incorporating the McCain Amendment and the Graham-Levin Amendment...

Russian officials on Saturday charged former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov with fraud and abuse of power, possibly stemming from US charges pending against him. Adamov was extradited from Switzerland to Russia ,...

A federal judge on Friday granted a request by John W. Hinckley, Jr. , who shot President Ronald Reagan and 3 others in 1981 , for seven overnight visits with his parents in their home in Williamsburg, Virginia,...

President George W. Bush on Friday signed a $453.3 billion defense spending bill which contains provisions banning the cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees in US custody, but also eliminates the ability of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST...

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning has filed a petition seeking permission to appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit a December 15 ruling that declared the state's 1982...