The US Senate has voted to approve the one-month extension of the Patriot Act passed by the House of Representatives earlier Thursday after House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. James Sesenbrenner blocked a six-month Senate...

Summary of legal authority supporting National Securitry Agency surveillance activities, letter from the US Department of Justice Office of Legislative Affairs to senior members of the US Senate and House Intelligence Committees, December 22, 2005 [citing constitutional powers, statutory authority...

A federal judge ruled Thursday that two Chinese Uighur detainees held by the US at Guantanamo Bay could be detained there indefinitely even though their imprisonment was unlawful. US District Judge James Robertson said that the courts simply had...

AP is reporting that the US House of Representatives has passed a one-month extension of the Patriot Act , significantly less than the six-month extension approved by the Senate Wednesday night. 4:32 PM ET -...

The Texas Third Court of Appeals Thursday denied a request by US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) to hasten his appeals process by reducing allowable filing periods from 20 to five days. Prosecutors...

The presiding judge of the 11-member Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) , the secret court charged with overseeing government espionage activities, has organized a classified briefing for panel members to allow administration representatives to report on the scope...

The Iraqi Special Tribunal Thursday adjourned the Saddam Hussein trial until January 24 after a day of testimony during which Hussein berated the US for denying his claims, made Wednesday ,...

The French Senate approved anti-terror legislation in a 202-122 vote Thursday after preliminarily approving the bill last week. The bill, introduced by conservative presidential hopeful and current Interior Minister Nicolas...

A British appellate court has ruled Thursday that British soldiers in Iraq are forbidden to subject Iraqi prisoners to cruel or degrading treatment while in their custody. The determination that the Human Rights Act ...

Australian police have arrested a 33-year-old man for using text messages to incite rioting a week after race riots broke out in Sydney involving 5,000 people, mostly white men and youths, attacking Muslim residents on local beaches....