A long-awaited FDA ruling on access to an emergency contraceptive called Plan B is expected to be announced by the end of the month, as part of a deal that got Lester Crawford approved by...

Lawyers for Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan filed a petition of certiorari on Monday, asking the US Supreme Court to block military tribunals for terror suspects. The high court had once before denied cert on...

Argentinian police announced on Monday the arrest of Milan Lukic, a former Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander who in July was convicted in absentia by a Serbian war crimes court and sentenced to 20 years for his role...

A new Florida policy that took effect on June 1 bans sex offenders from public hurricane shelters if they are under state supervision and not permitted near children. Instead, they...

According to US military leaders, the Pentagon has established new contingency plans for domestic military deployment in the event of a terrorist attack, but the procedures may challenge traditional doctrines constraining military roles in national law enforcement. The plans...

An civil liberties oversight panel created by Congress last year in response to a recommendation by the 9/11 Commission has yet to meet almost eight months after its inception. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board [CRS...

A new report released Monday by a UN panel accused Benon Sevan , the former head of the UN Oil-for-Food Program , of taking almost $150,000 in bribes. The Third Interim Report [PDF text;...

The family of Saddam Hussein said in a statement Monday that they have granted Khalil Dulaimi, an Iraqi lawyer already serving on his defense team, the exclusive right to represent the deposed Iraqi president, dissolving his...

Muktar Said Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed and Yassin Hassan Omar, three of the primary suspects in the failed July 21 London bombings appeared in court on Monday after being charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to...

An extradition treaty between Pakistan and Britain is in the "final stages", according to a spokesman for the Pakistani government. The official declined to elaborate on how many wanted persons may be traded between the two countries after the...