Racial animus accounted for more than half of the 7,649 hate crimes reported in the United States in 2004, a 5 percent rise from 2003, according to the FBI's annual FBI Hate Crimes Statistics report . Overall,...
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Lawyers in the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division are leaving their positions in record numbers amid allegations that the current administration is damaging morale and frustrating the efforts of long-time employees, according to a Washington...
A Federal Communications Commission order , which sets the date for all broadband and internet-phone providers to modify their systems to comply with a federal law that requires telecommunications providers to cooperate with law enforcement agencies...
Kizza Besigye , the president of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party, was arrested and charged with treason and rape in Uganda Monday. Prosecutors allege that Besigye participated in acts of treason to...
Lawyer Thamer Hamoud al-Khuzaie, who represents two of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants, has fled Iraq and is seeking asylum in Qatar following an attempt on his life. The news was revealed in a letter, obtained by Reuters Monday, written by...
A document released Monday by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library reveal that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote in 1985 that he was proud...
At the close of a three-day meeting in Brussels Monday, the leaders of eight Bosnian political parties failed to reach an agreement on a new draft constitution for the country. Representatives of the three main nationalities in...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that parents who challenge special education programs for not meeting their children's needs must bear the burden of proving the programs' inadequacies, and not school officials. The case,...
A court in Uzbekistan has found 15 men guilty of terrorism, attempted overthrow of the government, hostage taking and murder. The defendants, who all pleaded guilty, were accused of leading an uprising ...
Capital Punishment 2004, US Department of Justice, November 13, 2005 [reporting that a dozen US states executed 59 prisoners in 2004, six less than in 2003 and 125 people convicted of murder received the death penalty, the smallest number since...
