Data services group LexisNexis said Tuesday that personal information of 310,000 US citizens may have been stolen, significantly more than the 30,000 announced in March. An investigation by parent company Reed Elsevier found that company databases had been breached 59 times with stolen passwords, with personal information including social security numbers and addresses possibly stolen. [...]

An Afghan court has sentenced two deputy ministers and six others to prison on corruption charges, a court official said Tuesday. The case was the first major corruption case under the new government, since President Hamid Karzai made fighting corruption one of his top priorities after being elected in October 2004. The two deputy ministers, [...]

Andrea Dworkin , a feminist who campaigned against pornography as a violation of women's civil rights, has died at the age of 58, her family said on Monday. Dworkin published numerous books during her life, including "Woman Hating" , which began her advocacy on the harm to women caused by pornography. Dworkin argued that pornography [...]

AP is reporting that three men have been indicted on charges of plotting to attack financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington, DC. The three men are in custody in England, law enforcement officials said. An announcement is expected later today, when the indictments will be unsealed. AP has more. 2:10 PM ET [...]

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday warned Iraqi interim leaders to avoid political purgings that could lead to corruption in the government in the wake of its recent formation. He also urged the government to push forward in drafting a constitution for Iraq , with an August deadline fast approaching. Rumsfeld, who made the comments [...]

A Cambodian group gathering evidence of atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge government has appealed to governments worldwide for more evidence that can be used in the trials of former leaders. Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia , said requests for information had been sent to 42 embassies of countries that either [...]

Nepal has agreed to allow UN human rights workers to enter the country to monitor reported abuses by both government and Maoist rebel forces, the UN announced on Monday. Under the agreement signed by the Nepalese government and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , the OHCHR will set up regional [...]

John Negroponte , President Bush's selection for the new national intelligence director post, is expected to win Senate confirmation, but human rights questions dogging Negroponte from his time as ambassador to Honduras may slow the process. Confirmation hearings in the Senate Intelligence Committee begin Tuesday. Human rights groups have maintained that Negroponte supported human rights [...]

Puerto Rican legislators supporting US statehood said Monday they would try to push through a bill clarifying the territory's relations with the US over a veto by Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila. The bill, vetoed by Vila on Sunday, calls for a referendum by Puerto Ricans on whether to request that the US government honor any [...]

Three former Global Crossing executives have reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission where they will each pay a $100,000 civil fine without having to admit wrongdoing in "capacity swap" deals made before the telecommunications company went into bankruptcy. The SEC's civil complaint alleged that Global Crossing's former CEO Thomas Casey, former CFO [...]