Pakistan Supreme Court Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday Monday refuted arguments made by government lawyers that the Supreme Court of Pakistan should not "interfere with proceedings or assume jurisdiction" of the inquiry into alleged...
US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that he believed a "sizable number" of Republican members of Congress would join Democrats in a vote of no-confidence in...
The White House over the weekend defended an immigration reform agreement reached Thursday with key Republican and Democratic senators which has drawn opposition from both aisles of Congress, threatening what President Bush called a "secure, productive, orderly,...
Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany announced the resignation of Justice Minister Jozsef Petretei Sunday following the surfacing of multiple allegations of police corruption, including a high-profile case involving the alleged rape of a woman by...
Romanian voters Saturday rejected a referendum proposal to impeach reformist President Traian Basescu . Basescu was suspended by the opposition-dominated parliament last month for allegedly abusing his powers. Earlier this month, the...
Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks was transferred to a maximum security prison near his hometown of Adelaide, South Australia Sunday to serve the remainder of his nine-month prison sentence. In March, a...
The Texas Youth Commission (TYC) will release 226 inmates from its juvenile prison system after an investigation revealed that their sentences were improperly extended. Commission Special Master Jay Kimbrough, appointed early this month by Texas...
The US Army Court of Criminal Appeals (ACCA) issued a partial stay Friday in the court-martial of US Army 1st Lt. Ehren Watada after the defense filed a motion to dismiss asserting...
A New York jury found the Long Island Diocese of Rockville Centre negligent in the hiring and retention of a youth minister who repeatedly molested two victims between 1999 and 2002 on Friday, and was ordered to...
US Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, a former staff judge advocate stationed at Guantanamo Bay , was sentenced Friday to six months in prison and is to be dismissed from the US Navy for leaking detainee...