FBI Director Robert Mueller addressed the FBI's role in leading the new specialized interrogation group to question top terrorist suspects as well as many other topics in a wide ranging oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Mueller said that the new interrogation panel will be a "joint effort" between the FBI and the [...]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday announced that they would reconsider 2008 national smog standards regulations to ensure accuracy and public health. After a thorough review of the scientific methods behind the existing standards, the EPA will propose revisions by December and will issue a final decision by August 2010. Ground-level ozone, referred [...]

The US closed the Camp Bucca prison facility in Southern Iraq Wednesday, pursuant to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) . The remaining detainees were transferred from Camp Bucca, once the largest US detention facility in Iraq, to the two remaining US prison facilities, Camp Cropper and Camp Taji. Since the SOFA took effect on [...]

Myanmar authorities have denied a request from opposition pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi to attend arguments on her appeal, her National League for Democracy (NLD) party told the Agence France-Presse Wednesday. NLD spokesperson and lawyer for Suu Kyi, Nyan Win, said an application to the police special information branch to be present for Friday's [...]

Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh City Code, Title VI, Conduct, Article I: Regulated Rights and Actions, by adding Chapter 607A, titled "Prohibitions on Use of Obstruction Equipment and Possession of Certain Items with Intent to Defeat Lawful Dispersal Orders.", City of Pittsburgh Public Safety Services Committee, September 16, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. [...]

Amelia Mathias, Pitt Law '11, spent her summer conducting research at the Institute for European Studies in Brussels, Belgium… In early spring, I told a close friend in Pittsburgh that I would be spending the summer in Belgium. "It's good you're going now," he told me seriously, "since it's not going to be around that [...]

The Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday passed an ordinance in anticipation of the upcoming Group of 20 (G-20) summit that will allow police to cite people in possession of certain items if they intend to use them unlawfully. The temporary ordinance, passed in anticipation of protests at the summit scheduled for September 24 and 25, [...]

The Taipei District Court has ruled that former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian will not be released on bail, according to an aide Wednesday. Chen was found guilty on corruption charges and sentenced to life in prison last week. Under Taiwanese law, the life sentence will be automatically appealed, but Chen has also appealed the corruption [...]

The Hungarian government said Wednesday that it would accept one prisoner of its choosing from those still held at Guantanamo Bay in order to aid in the closure of the detention center. According to a statement by Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai , Hungary will accept a detainee from a list of candidates who will participate [...]

Israeli officials on Wednesday rejected a call by the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict to establish an independent inquiry into accusations of war crimes during December and January's Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip . The establishment of independent inquiry is one of the key suggestions from the UN report issued [...]