The government's lead counsel in its lawsuit against the tobacco industry on Wednesday withdrew from the case, as an investigation continues into whether political pressure forced the government to lower its demands in the case. Sharon Eubanks,...

The California Supreme Court late Wednesday denied a request by Stanley Tookie Williams , the Crips gang founder turned anti-gang activist, to halt his scheduled execution. Defense lawyers for Williams challenged forensic evidence in the case...

Authorities in France and Belgium have arrested fifteen suspects connected with a suicide bombing attack in Iraq on November 9 carried out by a woman who has been confirmed as a Belgian national married to an...

A UK High Court has heard an extradition appeal by three British men charged in connection with the Enron scandal challenging the validity of the British government's approval of a US extradition request ....

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says he has written a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , on behalf of EU nations , questioning the landing of CIA planes in nineteen airports [Guardian...

Samuel A. Alito to the US Solicitor General, Memo re: Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians, US Department of Justice, May 30, 1985 [advocating a gradual challenge to the fringes of Roe v. Wade, rather than an all-out assault on...

List of "Ghost Prisoners" Possibly in CIA Custody, Human Rights Watch, November 30, 2005 . Review the full list....

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday released a list of 26 "ghost detainees" , terror suspects that HRW alleges the US has not reported but is holding incommunicado and is possibly torturing. Many of the people on...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Wednesday bowed to pressure from back-benchers and agreed to several amendments to proposed anti-terror legislation that will soften several of its provisions. After a day of...

Prosecutor v. Fatmir Limaj, Haradin Bala, Isak Musliu et al., International Criminal Tribunal for ths Former Yugoslavia, November 30, 2005 [convicting Haradin Bala of torture, cruel treatment and murder at a prison camp in Kosovo run by the Kosovo Liberation...