An Iraqi lawyer said Saturday that an Iraqi judge has issued warrants for the arrest of 2 British soldiers freed in a UK raid on a Basra jail Monday. The soldiers, reported to be undercover SAS [Wikipedia...

The US boycotted a 3-day UN conference that ended Friday designed to encourage the 11 nuclear countries who have not signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to do so. Thirty-three...

Human Rights Watch claimed in a report issued Friday that members of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division systematically tortured Iraqi prisoners in 2003 and 2004 at a military base near Fallujah. A captain...

Defense psychologists testified in court-martial proceedings Friday that learning disabilities and her "compliant personality" made Pfc. Lynndie England so blindly obedient to her boyfriend and now-incarcerated superior officer Charles Graner [Wikipedia profile; JURIST news...

US v. Hayat, et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, new charges filed on September 22, 2005 [filing new charges against Hayat for providing material support to terrorists in addition to accusations that he lied...

The Bush administration may again decide to temporarily suspend the Jones Act in order to facilitate petroleum shipments between US ports if Hurricane Rita hinders supplies from reaching refineries, according to a government source Friday. The...

AP is reporting that Lester Crawford , commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration , has resigned.4:08 PM ET - Crawford's resignation comes just two months after his Senate confirmation as FDA chief . During the...

The European Union Friday presented a motion to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna that would condemn Iran's nuclear program as a violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , but would...

In Friday's environmental law news, Alameda County California supervisors have approved a plan that would mandate the shutdown of windmills during the winter migratory bird season. The Altamont Pass has over 5,000 windmills and is located along...

Diplomats said Friday that a French-led working group of the UN Human Rights Committee has completed drafting a treaty that would bind signing countries to prevent enforced or involuntary disappearances , calling them "crimes against humanity"....