David Satterfield, the number-two diplomat at the US Embassy in Baghdad, is allegedly one of the anonymous government officials said to have disclosed classified information to a Department of Defense analyst and two former officials of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) , who pleaded not guilty earlier this week to [...]

AP is reporting that Ohio Governor Bob Taft will plead no contest to charges that he improperly failed to report golf outings and other gifts. 1:22 PM ET – Taft was fined $4,000 but will not serve any jail time as part of a plea agreement. When entering his plea, Taft said that he took [...]

There has been an almost 80 percent decrease in the number of federal tort trials from 1985 to 2003, the US Department of Justice said in a report released Wednesday. According to Federal Tort Trials and Verdicts, 2002-03 , the decrease can be attributed to the growing use of alternative dispute resolution and the increased [...]

Police in Bangladesh have detained almost 50 people for questioning after a series of over 100 bombs exploded across the country on Wednesday, killing two and injuring over 100. The near-simultaneous bombings took place outside government buildings and court houses in almost every major city in Bangladesh. Police say leaflets from a banned Islamic group, [...]

Ali Alatas, former Indonesian foreign minister, went to Myanmar Thursday as a special envoy of the UN to help push for the release of jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi . Alatas was appointed to the position in 2003, but this is his first visit to the country. Myanmar's military leaders have not allowed [...]

The trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resumed Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia after a summer recess, with Milosevic calling ethnic Albanian witnesses from Kosovo to testify. The prosecution contends that Yugoslav and Serbian forces were ordered by Milosevic to expel tens of thousands of Kosovo Albanians during the [...]

The Iraqi Islamic Party , Iraq's largest Sunni political group, on Wednesday heavily criticized the committee drafting a new Iraq constitution and said that the same major disputes blocking a draft last week remain to be worked out. The group said the committee was biased and incompetent in its approach to resolve differences over federalism [...]

Israeli security soldiers on Thursday entered the religious settlement of Kfar Darom and surrounded a synagogue filled with hundreds of young pullout opponents as the soldiers removed screaming residents from nearby homes and a religious school. One soldier refused to take part in the operation and had to be dragged away; the first such mutiny [...]

A US military jury on Wednesday convicted Pfc. Willie Brand of assault, maltreatment, false official swearing and maiming. Brand faces up to 16 years in military prison for beating one of two Afghan detainees who later died at Bagram Control Point near Kabul. The jury acquitted him of related charges involving the second prisoner. Brand [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and a Fellow at the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy, says that the new federal bankruptcy legislation signed into law this past Spring weeds out fraud and abuse while preserving a "fresh start" for debtors… After eight years of [...]