Government Response to Memorandum of Amicus Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the US House of Representatives on a Motion for Return of Property filed by Rep. William Jefferson, US Department of Justice, June 13, 2006 [arguing that House Councel's articulation...

The US Department of Defense has rejected a demand by Amnesty International for an independent investigation into last weekend's three detainee suicides at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. A Pentagon...

The new US Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation will not contain a classified section, despite warnings from some in the Department of Defense that disclosing certain techniques would undermine the ability of interrogators to...

Former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell was sentenced to 2 1/2 years imprisonment Tuesday for three tax evasion charges on which he was convicted in March . Judge Richard Story of the US District Court for the...

Newdow v. Congress, United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, Judge Frank Damrell, June 12, 2006 [dismissing a lawsuit brought by atheist Michael Newdow against the US government arguing that the words "In God We Trust" on...

A former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration testified in a deposition that the agency postponed a decision to allow over-the-counter sales of Plan B emergency contraceptives while it considered how...

Lawyers for three men Arab Muslim men argued before the Supreme Court of Canada Tuesday that a program allowing the government to indefinitely detain and deport foreigners with suspected ties to terrorism is unconstitutional. The three men...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the UN Security Council Tuesday that he has asked the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to establish an independent commission that will investigate the recent surge in...

The Egyptian Parliament has sent an anticipated judicial reform bill prepared by the Ministry of Justice back to Egypt's Cabinet to iron out controversial points, including the Justice Ministry's right to assess the performance of judges, the...

A federal judge has granted a defense request to dismiss a criminal charge that W.R. Grace & Co. and its executives knowingly endangered miners and residents of Libby, Montana by concealing health risks...