The Texas Third Court of Appeals Monday threw out more than 30 subpoenas issued by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle , who is investigating the political fundraising activities of former US House Majority Leader Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) . Attorneys for DeLay asked the court to throw out the subpoenas, saying Earle had issued [...]

Defense lawyers in the Enron fraud trial Monday finished their cross-examination of former Chief Financial Officer and lead government witness Andrew Fastow , bringing to a conclusion his four-day stint on the witness stand. Fastow testified that he had stolen millions before the company's collapse in 2001 and that he had lied to investigators until [...]

The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Monday against the US Department of Defense seeking the release of records and identities of the more than 750 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay since 2001, some 260 of which have been released. In the suit filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [...]

Canada, the European Union, and several key supporters of a proposed UN Human Rights Council are urging the United States to accept a compromise that would allow approval of a draft UN General Assembly resolution while offering the US assurances that they hope will address American concerns about possible rights-abusing nations being elected to the [...]

Leading Tuesday's international brief, the UN Security Council has expressed its approval of the African Union decision to extend the AU peacekeeping force mandate for Darfur by six months. The AU Peace and Security Council announced it will keep AU peacekeepers in Darfur until September 30, when it plans to hand control of the peacekeeping [...]

Zimbabwe police Monday denied torture allegations by suspects arrested and charged with plotting to overthrow the government and assassinate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe . Senior Assistant Commissioner Ronald Muderedzwa said only 11 people have been arrested , but continuing investigations into the stockpiled weapons found last week may lead to more arrests. The arrested individuals [...]

Four members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang go on trial Tuesday in California as the government attempts to bring an end to the white supremacist group. Altogether, twenty members of the gang face eventual trial in what has been described as one of the biggest capital cases in US history: charges in the case [...]

The president of the NAACP called on the US Justice Department Monday to block New Orleans mayoral elections currently scheduled for April 22, saying they would be "illegal" because the state of Louisiana "cannot guarantee or provide some level of insurance that a substantial percentage of New Orleans voters will be able to vote either [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia formally closed its war crimes case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic Tuesday, three days after he was found dead in his cell over the weekend. The court, which had been trying the case against Milosevic for over four years, expressed regret to the victims of the [...]

A resolution introduced Monday in the US Senate by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) to censure President Bush over domestic spying received only lukewarm approval from Feingold's fellow Democrats, preventing a floor vote and resulting in referral to the Senate Judiciary Committee . Several Democratic leaders said that they wanted to see the complete results of [...]