Sen. John Warner (R-VA) , chairman of the US Senate Armed Forces Committee, said Thursday that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has promised to give "immediate consideration" to concerns about the increased detentions and...

US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) was ordered on Thursday to appear in a Texas court on October 21 for his initial appearance in connection with charges that he violated Texas election law ....

US military officials said Thursday in testimony before the US Senate Armed Services Committee that they are confident that Iraq will vote to approve the draft constitution in the upcoming October 15 referendum, but...

US Army Reserve Colonel Janis Karpinski , former US commander of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison , said Friday that the US military has done little to ensure that abuses first exposed by the Abu Ghraib...

Government officials in the United Kingdom are rethinking plans to enact a new law that would criminalize the act of "glorifying terrorism." In an interview Thursday with BBC's Today program, Prime Minister...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will soon issue arrest warrants for leaders of the Uganda rebel group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) , according to statements from a UN official Thursday. The LRA leaders, who have taken...

ACLU, et al. v. DOD, et al., Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, United States District Court Southern District of New York, September 29, 2005 [ruling under the Freedom of Information Act, ordering the release of additional photographs and videotapes of detainee...

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday followed through on his promise to veto the gay marriage bill passed by the California Assembly earlier this month. In a veto statement issued late Thursday...

AP is reporting that New York Times reporter Judith Miller has been released from federal prison after agreeing to testify to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity, according to legal sources. Her...

Trial preparations commenced Thursday in federal court in Houston for the first federal civil trial involving the Merck-manufactured Vioxx painkiller. Earlier this month, New Orleans-based US District Judge Eldon Fallon, charged with managing the hundreds of...