A federal judge has ruled that a school district in Louisiana must stop allowing the distribution of Bibles in schools, saying that the distribution is "a religious activity without a secular purpose" in violation of the First...
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FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the US House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that he had advised officials at the Departments of Justice and Defense that some interrogation tactics employed against terror suspects...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Wednesday adjourned a hearing to consider an appeal by former Cambodian head of state Khieu Samphan against his detention after Samphan's...
Federal prosecutors said at a hearing Wednesday that they would press for a third terrorism prosecution of six men charged with conspiring to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI headquarters in...
The UK Court of Appeal Wednesday rejected an appeal by four men convicted for plotting the failed bomb attacks on London's subway and bus systems on July 21, 2005, two weeks after a similar attack...
The Federal Court of Australia on Wednesday ruled that a lower court made several errors of law in its 2006 decision giving Aborigines native title to land in the Australian city of Perth, and...
The US government has abandoned a prototype "virtual fence" along the US-Mexico border after the system failed to perform up to expectations, according to Wednesday media reports. The prototype fence, which consists of nine unmanned...
Federal prosecutors filed felony charges Tuesday against Capt. John Joseph Cota, the California maritime pilot accused in the November 2007 spill of approximately 58,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil in the San Francisco Bay. Cota,...
Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," has been released from the hospital and returned to a US detention facility in Baghdad, US military officials said Tuesday. Al-Majid was...
The US Supreme Court handed down its decision Wednesday in Virginia v. Moore , where the Court ruled that Virginia police did not violate Moore's Fourth Amendment right when they arrested...
