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The Pentagon has released 32 new or recently uncensored images of the coffins of US soldiers and agreed to quickly fulfill any future Freedom of Information Act requests for images of US war casualties. The release...

In an interview with the Associated Press reported Tuesday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he would reconsider his predecessor John Ashcroft's policies on public access to government information. In October 2001 Ashcroft tightened existing policies...

US Department of Defense lawyers have refused to comply with a federal judge's order to release pictures and videotapes documenting the abuse of Abu Ghraib prisoners, alleging release "could result in harm to individuals." Judge...

Wire services are reporting that President Bush will nominate federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts for the US Supreme Court seat opened by the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, according to Washington sources. Roberts, a former law...

TIME magazine said in a statement Thursday that it will turn over notes by reporter Matthew Cooper to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name despite Cooper's own willingness to go to jail rather than...

A Kuwait court Wednesday cleared Nasser al-Mutairi of committing an act of aggression against a foreign nation. Mutairi, the first Kuwait to be freed from Guantanamo Bay in January, had been charged with endangering Kuwait's foreign relations...

The intergovernmental Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has urged US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to drop subpoenas against two journalists demanding that they name their sources to a grand jury investigating the leak of a...

Leading Syrian human rights activist Aktham Naisse , was acquitted of all charges by a Syrian State Security Court Sunday. Naisse, chairman of the Committees for the Defense of Democratic Liberties and Human Rights in Syria,...

Leading Friday's international brief, the special criminal tribunal created by the Sudanese government to begin the process of trying individuals alleged to have committed war crimes in Darfur is reportedly questioning its legal status to...

A lawyer for the first Kuwaiti inmate to be freed from the Guantanamo Bay detention center argued before a Kuwait City tribunal Wednesday that his client should not be tried in Kuwaiti court...