UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Friday that he is dispatching UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicholas Michel to assist the Lebanese government and "the country's other political leaders to end their political impasse and...
An Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) report released Saturday concludes that a US Marine Corps Special Forces unit under the command of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) violated international humanitarian...
Former US vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , convicted in March of perjury and obstruction of justice , will be appealing the verdict according to documents filed in court Friday. Libby's defense team...
The Bush administration Friday officially proposed amendments to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would subject more people to electronic surveillance within the United States. The proposed legislation, submitted a week...
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed a law that will "prohibit persons from engaging in picketing or a directed protest within 150 yards of any entrance" where a funeral is held...
The White House issued a policy statement Thursday expressing the administration's strong opposition to the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 Thursday, and threatening presidential veto of the bill unless the Democratic-controlled Congress...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocked the release of Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles on bail Thursday, after federal prosecutors filed an emergency motion appealing US District Judge Kathleen Cardone's ruling...
US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said Monday that the United States is filing a case against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for lax enforcement of copyright violations...
Jury selection was completed Monday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana for the second federal lawsuit to go to trial involving Louisiana homeowners affected by the Hurricane Katrina disaster ....
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an emergency stay of an federal injunction Friday, hours after US District Judge Claude M. Hilton of the Eastern District of Virgina issued the partial order prohibiting...