A Chilean appeals court has again upheld indictments against former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet for his role in the disappearance of three dissidents who went missing in the early years of his 1973-1990 regime....

Press Briefing by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and General Michael Hayden, Principal Deputy Director for National Intelligence on the legal issues surrounding the NSA authorization of domestic surveillance, December 19, 2005. Read the full text of the briefing. Reported...

AP is reporting that a federal judge has ruled that "intelligent design" cannot be taught in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district. US District Judge John E. Jones III ruled Tuesday that the Dover Area School District...

The trial of five former members of a Serbian paramilitary group charged with the videotaped execution of six Bosnian Muslims during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre began in Belgrade Tuesday. The five defendants, members of...

US senators debated Monday evening the possibility of extending the USA Patriot Act only temporarily, from as little as three months to as long as four years, in response to President Bush's statement earlier...

Five members of the elite US Army 75th Ranger Regiment have been sentenced for up to six months for abusing detainees in Iraq. The five soldiers were charged last month in connection with a September...

Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein said Tuesday that the former Iraqi ruler will be in court when his trial resumes Wednesday. During proceedings earlier this month, Hussein boycotted a trial session ...

Sunni Arabs on Tuesday said that partial results released earlier this week in Iraq's parliamentary elections were a "falsification of the will of the people" and said that there was abundant evidence of fraud. Preliminary results...

Top Senate Democrats have said that they never approved or were fully briefed on the National Security Agency's post-September 11th domestic surveillance program . President Bush has vigorously defended the program, which monitors international communications of people in...

Case Concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda), International Court of Justice, December 19, 2005 [ruling that Uganda violated the sovereignty of the Democratic Republic of Congo during a 1998-2003 war...