A federal judge in Georgia has certified a class of more than 10,000 registered sex offenders living in Georgia that would be subject to a new state law barring them from living or working within 1,000 feet of a child care facility, church, school or "area where minors congregate," including school bus stops. US District [...]

The UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) on Wednesday cleared the way for the UK to resume deportations of Zimbabwe citizens seeking asylum in Britain, overturning a previous decision that all Zimbabwe citizens face a "real risk of serious harm" if deported. The AIT determination holds that " failed asylum seeker returned involuntarily to Zimbabwe [...]

Eagle Global Logistics (EGL), a Houston based company hired by Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) to ship military cargo to Iraq, has paid the government $4 million to settle potential claims under the False Claims Act that it inflated invoices for Iraq military cargo shipments, the US Justice Department said Wednesday. EGL was [...]

Hardline Republicans in Kansas lost control of the Kansas Board of Education during a Tuesday primary vote that brought in more moderate conservatives who support the theory of evolution. The School Board garnered international attention last year when it upheld anti-evolution standards in schools across the state, using its two-person conservative majority. After Tuesday's election, [...]

The US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure to seize land on Mount Soledad in San Diego, thus permitting the First Amendment , rather than the California constitution, to control the issue of whether a cross , erected on the land as a tribute to Vietnam War veterans, is an impermissible government endorsement of religion. [...]

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has completed its probe into the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November, and a Pentagon official indicated Wednesday that evidence supports accusations that US Marines from the Third Battalion, First Marine Regiment murdered the unarmed Iraqis. NCIS may be called on again to further investigate the [...]

Members of the 9/11 Commission considered asking the US Justice Department to investigate suspected deception by government officials intended to hide mistakes in the Pentagon's response to the Sept. 11 attacks , the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. The commissioners contemplated possible criminal charges under 18 U.S.C. 1001 , which prohibits making false statements before [...]

Mexican Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal criticized presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and supporters staging protests in Mexico City, saying Tuesday that the protestors have set up an "illegal blockade" by effectively bringing Reforma Avenue and the nearby Zocalo square to a standstill. The protest are causing traffic jams and business delays at the headquarters [...]

US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Tuesday that the White House has changed its position on military commissions , and now favors an approach that would try suspected terrorist detainees under a system modeled more on the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) . Graham, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, [...]

Ten permanent resident immigrants sued the federal government on Tuesday, arguing that their naturalization applications have been unnecessarily delayed by "the bureaucratic failings and callous inaction" of the FBI and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in delaying "name checks" required before applications can be granted. The lawsuit , filed by the Council for American-Islamic [...]