Four people filed suit Thursday against the Transportation Security Administration in an Anchorage federal court alleging that the agency illegally collected information about passengers in testing the Secure Flight Program last fall. Earlier this month,...

Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms on Thursday after pleading guilty in June to 10 murders. Since Kansas did not have the death penalty at the time of the crimes, the...

The Illinois Supreme Court reversed a $1 billion judgment against State Farm Thursday, ruling that a class action should not have been certified in the case. In 1999, State Farm was held...

Lawyers representing the family of Brazilian citizen Jean Charles de Menezes, mistakenly killed by police who thought they were pursuing a suspect in the July 21 London bombing , have accused Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian...

The National Archives began an investigation Wednesday into the disappearance of a file containing papers authored by US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts on affirmative action. Officials said the file disappeared ...

Vladimiro Montesinos , a close aide of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Peru's former intelligence chief, went on trial Wednesday on charges that he ordered the massacres of Maoist rebel supporters by paramilitary death...

David Satterfield, the number-two diplomat at the US Embassy in Baghdad, is allegedly one of the anonymous government officials said to have disclosed classified information to a Department of Defense analyst and two former officials of the pro-Israel lobbying...

There has been an almost 80 percent decrease in the number of federal tort trials from 1985 to 2003, the US Department of Justice said in a report released Wednesday. According to Federal Tort...

Police in Bangladesh have detained almost 50 people for questioning after a series of over 100 bombs exploded across the country on Wednesday, killing two and injuring over 100. The near-simultaneous bombings took place outside government buildings...

Ali Alatas, former Indonesian foreign minister, went to Myanmar Thursday as a special envoy of the UN to help push for the release of jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi . Alatas was appointed to...