Identities and details concerning the cases and treatment of some 60 Guantanamo detainees have emerged from thousands of pages of transcribed documentation filed by detainees' lawyers in US District Court in Washington, where lawsuits challenging the...
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In a turnaround from its position just a day earlier, the Environmental Protection Agency canceled a controversial study Friday involving the effects of pesticides on children. The EPA had planned to seek the advice of outside scientific...
United States v. Hansl, United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Central Division, Judge Robert Pratt, April 8, 2005 ....
Joint Doctrine for Detainee Operations, US Department of Defense, March 23, 2005 [proposed guidelines concerning the detention of enemy combatants extends the status normally reserved for members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban to anyone affiliated with terrorists or terrorist groups...
US District Judge Robert Pratt ruled Friday that a former Nazi guard who became a US citizen must relinquish his naturalization papers and passport. John Hansl of Des Moines Iowa, now 80, came to the United States under a...
Michael Ross testified Friday at a hearing that he wants to be executed next month, defending his right to give up his death-row appeals. Ross says that he wants to spare his victims' families additional agony, but...
Judge Thomas Horne of the Virginia Loudoun County Circuit sentenced a former Internet spammer to nine years in prison Friday for violating a Virginia anti-spam law in the first US felony prosecution for sending unsolicited...
Philip Alston , a UN human rights investigator speaking in Geneva Friday, urged countries to remove their "cloak of secrecy" and disclose the numbers of prisoners executed and those waiting on death row. Alston, an Australian jurist...
Six major electronics companies have been indicted for allegedly defrauding the federal E-Rate program, a $2.25 billion per-year project that assists underfunded schools and libraries in accessing the Internet. While some companies are accused of overcharging equipment and submitting...
AP is reporting that Eric Rudolph has agreed to plead guilty to four terrorist attacks, including the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympic Games....
