Federal investigators and prosecutors fudged data on the number of anti-terrorism investigations and cases for the four years after 9/11, according to an audit by US Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn A. Fine released Tuesday....
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases Tuesday, including one dealing with the procedure the state of New York employs to choose trial judges. In NY Board of Elections v. Torres, state...
Lawyers for the Australian government argued that control orders do not violate the country's constitution during a Tuesday court hearing in the case of an Australian man convicted in February 2006 of receiving money from an al...
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Tuesday that provisions in the Military Commissions Act stripping foreign nationals held as "enemy combatants" of the right to file habeas corpus...
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Tuesday, including Philip Morris USA v. Williams , where the Court overturned a $79.5 million punitive damages verdict against...
The Meshrano Jirga , the upper house of the Afghanistan parliament , Tuesday approved a resolution calling for amnesty from war crimes prosecution for leaders of the Afghan mujahedeen resistance who fought against Soviet forces in the...
Authorities in Bangladesh plan to publish a list of several hundred people who are suspected of graft, following the Sunday arrests of 50 high-profile suspects, according to a government official. Delowar Hossain, secretary of the Anti-Corruption...
Two US Congressmen Monday pressed their case for legislation investigating the treatment of 2,300 Japanese descendants from 13 Latin American countries held in US internment camps during World War II. Bill sponsors Reps. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) and Dan Lungren...
The lead judge in the mass trial of suspects in the 2004 Madrid train bombings asked the Spanish government Monday to declassify documents allegedly linking a defendant to the Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA)...
Former Canadian Supreme Court Justice John Major temporarily closed proceedings on the 1985 Air India bombing investigation on Monday until certain documents are publicly released. Major said he cannot carry out the probe without particular...