Iraq Study Group Report, Iraq Study Group, December 7, 2006 [recommending that the Bush Administration provide "strong" support and funding for US Justice Department efforts in Iraq "to establish courts; to train judges, prosecutors and investigators; and to create institutions...

Canada’s House of Commons voted 175 to 123 Thursday against reopening debate on same-sex marriage . The result effectively upheld Canada’s 2005 law allowing equal marriage rights for same-sex couples , passed under...

Hewlett-Packard reached a $14.5 million settlement agreement with California Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday in an unfair business practices suit stemming from HP's allegedly fraudulent attempts to obtain certain...

Outgoing Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) presented a bill Thursday that would prevent federal prosecutors from exerting what he sees as excessive pressure on companies and executives in fraud...

Charles McArthur Emmanuel, also known as Roy Belfast Jr. and Charles Taylor Jr., son of former Liberia president Charles Taylor, pleaded not guilty in a US district court in Florida Thursday to charges of committing...

Interim Fiji Prime Minister Dr. Jona Senilagakali admitted Thursday that the military coup carried out in the country earlier this week is "illegal" but defended the takeover as necessary "to clean up the mess of a much...

Russia has opened a criminal investigation into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko , the Russian Prosecutor General's office said Thursday. Litvinenko, who once worked for the Russian Security Federal Bureau, was poisoned in London on...

Scientists produced new evidence Wednesday supporting the claim of innocence of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus. An analysis published...

Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 2003 for crimes relating to the Rwandan genocide, was released from prison Wednesday after serving his sentence, becoming the first person freed after...

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert S. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the FBI has launched internal investigations into media leaks of details relating to several public corruption probes. The...