Two owners of a Louisiana nursing home who were charged last year with negligent homicide for the deaths of 34 people in flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina have sued a number of...
President Bush announced on Wednesday the nominations of five people to serve as federal appeals court judges on the US Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Circuits. The nomination of the five...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday once again said that Iran will not cease its uranium enrichment program, despite an August 31 deadline set by UN Security Council Resolution 1696 , stating...
An Australian court on Monday ordered terror suspect Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas to stay within the city of Melbourne and imposed an evening curfew in the first use of controversial "control orders" authorized under anti-terror legislation...
An increase in Sudanese troops in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan could lead to a new human rights crisis there, Amnesty International warned Monday as the UN Security Council prepared to...
Two relatives of Hamid Hayat , who was convicted earlier this year of attending a terrorist training camp, have been prevented from re-entering the United States after a trip to Pakistan unless they submit to questioning by...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Tuesday finding that security forces in Guinea are routinely torturing people to coerce confessions in an increasingly unstable domestic climate. According to...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has overturned a Missouri law banning sexually suggestive billboards on highways, saying that it was an unconstitutional infringement on commercial free speech. The court ruled...
An Iraqi official said Tuesday that an independent panel established to investigate the alleged March 12 rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and the murder of her family at the hands of US soldiers in...
Eleven suspects charged in connection with the foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean appeared in a UK court for the first time Tuesday. Eight defendants were remanded in...