The US military on Thursday announced the release of 419 Iraqi detainees , including five women detainees . The decision to release the detainees followed a review by the Combined Review and Release Board , an...

Leading Thursday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that he's sending UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel to Lebanon to assist government officials there in identifying the "nature and scope of the international assistance"...

Letter from Senator Arlen Specter to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales setting out questions to be addressed by the AG in scheduled US Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on "Wartime executive Powers and the NSA's Surveillance Authority", January 24, 2006. Read...

Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, eldest daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , requested political asylum in the US Wednesday after being detained at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC. US Ambassador to Chile...

Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, an Indiana truck driver accused of offering to sell names of US covert operatives to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government, was convicted Wednesday on six of seven criminal counts , including acting as an...

US President George W. Bush on Wednesday defended his authorization of the National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless domestic surveillance program in a visit to the agency’s headquarters, saying that “the work they do is...

Enron founder Kenneth Lay and ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling on Wednesday asked the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse its rejection of their motion to change the...

Leading Wednesday's environmental law news, Judge John Suddock of the Alaska Superior Court has ruled that owners of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline have been overcharging in-state refineries for crude oil transport. The ruling upholds a...

The state that was once known as being "For Lovers" has come one step closer to formally banning same-sex marriage. The Virginia Senate Wednesday overwhemingly approved a bill that would allow voters to endorse a constitutional...

The Republican majority in the Georgia legislature has pushed through a revised voter ID bill which would require all voters to show either a driver's license, military ID or state-issued identification card with a photo prior...