The Federal Bureau of Investigation encountered "numerous systemic problems" during its investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks , "ranging from poor individual performance to more substantial systemic deficiencies that...
Newly released Pentagon documents provide evidence of "desperate and immoral conditions" at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay prior to the three suicides there earlier this month, according to...
The Israeli government said Monday that it will review the path of the West Bank security barrier after the High Court of Justice last week ordered the state to take down...
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was transported out of Sierra Leone to the Netherlands Tuesday to await trial by the Special Court for Sierra Leone , according to Sierra Leone Vice-President Solomon Berewa...
Observers say President Bush could issue a pardon for former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis Scooter Libby following last weeks revelation that Karl Rove , Bush's top political advisor, will not face criminal charges in...
Samson v. California, Supreme Court of the United States, June 19, 2006 [holding that the Fourth Amendment does not prevent police officers from routinely searching parolees even when the search is not based on suspicion of criminal wrongdoing, but instead...
The US Office of Military Commissions has delayed a pretrial hearing for Omar Khadr , a Canadian citizen and Guantanamo Bay detainee charged with killing a US Special Forces soldier...
Egyptian police Monday arrested 31 additional members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, bringing the total number of members arrested to 700, according to officers speaking on condition of anonymity. The members were arrested for...
Rapanos v. US & Carabell v. Army Corps of Engineers, Supreme Court of the United States, June 19, 2006 [holding that the Clean Water Act applies only to bodies of water that are "permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of...
An opposition activist who was critical of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko during his most recent presidential campaign has been sentenced to three years in jail by a Belarus court. Nikolai...