Crime Victimization, 2005, US Department of Justice, September 11, 2006 [reporting that US violent and property crime rates in 2005 reached the lowest levels since 1973, the first year such statistics were kept, but that gun crime had increased over...

Measures for Administering the Release of News and Information in China by Foreign News Agencies, People's Republic of China, September 10, 2006 [giving China's official Xinhua News Agency ultimate rights of approval over the distribution and release of foreign news...

Military Commissions Act of 2006, White House, September 6, 2006 . Read the full text of proposed...

FM 2-22.3, Human Intelligence Collector Operations, US Army, September 6, 2006 [specifying that the Geneva Conventions apply to all detainees, eliminating separate standards for the questioning of prisoners of war and enemy combatants and abandoning plans to keep specific interrogation...

Criminal Terrorism Enforcement in the United States During the Five Years Since the 9/11/01 Attacks, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, September 4, 2006 [finding that the number of terrorism-related prosecutions has sharply declined in the years following the Sept. 11 attacks...

In re: Nomination Paper of Ralph Nader and Peter Michael Camejo as Candidates of an Independent Political Body for President and Vice President in the General Election of November 2, 2004, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, August 22, 2006 [ruling that...

Murphy v. IRS, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, August 23, 2006 . Read the...

Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure, Amnesty International, August 23, 2006 [report accusing Israel of deliberately inflicting unnecessary damage on Lebanese civilian infrastructure during the Middle East conflict, acts which Amnesty says rises to the level...

Passions Video, Inc. v. Nixon, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, August 21, 2006 . Read the full text of...

US v. Padilla, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, August 21, 2006 [finding that the charge of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim persons in a foreign country is "multiplicitous" and violates the Double Jeopardy Clause...