US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, and FBI Director Robert Mueller were among a host of other government officials and prosecutors at the US Department of Justice who said they would resign if the White House forced them to hand over information gathered during the FBI office search of US Rep. [...]

In the wake of public urging from President Bush, Congressional leaders Friday took steps to damp down a brewing constitutional conflict with the US Department of Justice over a weekend FBI search of the offices of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA). House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) backed away from a Thursday statement co-signed by Rep. Nancy [...]

An ongoing investigation into the November 2005 deaths of two dozen Iraqi civilians in the city of Haditha has yielded evidence indicating that the US Marines may have committed murders, according to a senior military officer speaking to AP Friday on condition of anonymity. The investigation was launched in March after a TIME magazine report [...]

Martha Stewart has opted to deny allegations of insider trading brought in a civil lawsuit by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rather than settle the charges. Stewart's Thursday response to an SEC complaint claims she acted in good faith and rejects accusations that she used insider tips to make the decision to sell [...]

AP is reporting that the federal judge in the CIA leak case against former Vice-Presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has granted part of Libby's request to issue subpoenas to TIME magazine and the New York Times for correspondence and other journalistic materials related to the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity . 1:33 [...]

A federal judge has ordered the US Department of Defense to expedite processing of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and several student groups regarding the alleged use of a terrorist database to spy on organizers of demonstrations against military recruiters on college campuses in April [...]

Following US Senate passage of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 on Thursday, observers suggested Friday that President Bush is likely to play an important role in reconciling the Senate plan with the more conservative Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act passed by the House last year. Bush has repeatedly called for [...]

The Court of Appeal in London Friday refused to grant a stay of extradition to Farid Hilali, an alleged UK contact for the September 11 hijackers who is being deported to Spain to face terrorism charges for associating with convicted Al-Qaida member Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas . Yarkas is suspected of leading an al-Qaida cell [...]

A court in Moscow on Friday upheld a ban on an international gay pride parade scheduled to take place in the Russian capital on Saturday after gay activists appealed the decision of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov rejecting the application of parade organizers. The mayor's office last week stated that the parade marking the 13th anniversary [...]

A Russian judge Friday found Nurpashi Kulayev guilty of all charges for his role in the September 2004 Beslan school siege , sentencing him to life in prison. Kulayev was charged with terrorism and murder, and earlier this month, the judge ruled that Kulayev committed an act of terrorism over the defendant's denial that he [...]