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The Associated Press reported Monday that a new batch of documents received by the press agency under a Freedom of Information Act suit describe multiple allegations of abuse of Guantanamo prisoners by US personnel and inaction by...

In a 2002 FBI document made public Wednesday, an FBI agent wrote that a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay naval base claimed that military jailers flushed the Koran down the toilet, a claim paralleling one made in a recent...

The American Civil Liberties Union is joining four other groups to sue the FBI claiming the bureau ignored a Freedom of Information Act request. The ACLU sought information regarding the extent of anti-terrorism task...

The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to consider whether a Brazil-based church can continue using a traditional Native American tea brewed from a hallucinogenic herb, hoasca, as a religious sacrament. The case is Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente...

Lawyers for six Guantanamo Bay detainees filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday asking a judge to force the Department of Justice and Department of Defense to comply with their Freedom of Information Act requests for documents,...

During the weekly Democratic radio address Saturday, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid defended his party's position in the current battle between Democrats and Republicans over President Bush's judicial nominees and procedures used...

Leading Friday's international brief, opposition members in Togo clashed with police on the first day of political campaigning for the national elections required by the resignation of Faure Gnassingbe . Protesters blocked...

Pope John Paul II has died, according to Vatican sources. He was 84. An announcement has just been made in Italian and English on Vatican Radio, monitored over the Internet from...

Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, once the top US commander in Iraq, authorized harsh prisoner interrogation tactics, according to a 2003 memo obtained and released by the ACLU under its ongoing Freedom of Information Act requests...

US Army documents released Friday suggest that abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US military forces was more widespread than previously revealed. An Army investigative report from January 2004 reviewing events in 2003 concluded that at a detention facility near...