The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has asked that a jury verdict finding it negligent in the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center be set aside. According to a...

Former Hollinger International executive Jack Boultbee Wednesday pleaded not guilty to fraud charges a week after failing to appear for his originally scheduled arraignment. Boultbee appeared in a Chicago court to answer charges stemming from...

The US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled in a 2-1 decision that restrictions imposed on telemarketers by North Dakota help to maintain privacy and are not overly broad. The court's holding reverses...

Australian Human Rights Commissioner Sev Ozdowski , whose statutory appointment to the post ends Wednesday, has urged his successor to push for an Australian bill of rights to counter the tough anti-terror laws that the Australian...

British playwright Harold Pinter , winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature , has called for war crimes charges against US President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in an acceptance...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard two cases involving jury deliberations in death penalty cases. In the first, Oregon v. Guzek , the Court considered whether juries can...

Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Calvin Johnson has ordered the release without bail of as many as 100 prisoners who were arrested before Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area, but were never charged. Johnson,...

US Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald on Wednesday presented additional evidence to a newly empaneled grand jury in the CIA leak case . Fitzgerald has continued his probe and is reportedly considering...

US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , has said that the final version of the 2006 defense spending bill will likely contain a ban on cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment...

A Chilean appeals court on Wednesday stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution for the disappearance of an additional 29 leftists under his regime. The ruling allows the 29 cases to...