Yevgeny Adamov, former minister in charge of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) , was arrested Wednesday in Bern, Switzerland under a US warrant on charges of fraud and money laundering. He has been accused of diverting $9...

The US Marine Corps has dropped charges against the Marine corporal responsible for shooting a wounded and unarmed Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque last November in an incident caught on a dramatic videotape aired on...

Colorado's House Judiciary Committee have killed SB 140 , a bill that would have allowed Colorado voters in the upcoming November election to vote on the addition of a same-sex marriage ban to the state Constitution....

The Mexican attorney general's office (PGR) Wednesday dropped a land dispute case brought against Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador . Lopez Obrador , the popular front-runner in the country's 2006...

Colombian police arrested two American soldiers Wednesday for attempted arms smuggling, potentially to illegal far-right Colombian para-military groups. This is the second set of arrests for US military smuggling in the past month; the other involved a US Air...

Sean Gerard Hoey, a member of the Irish Republican Army , was charged Wednesday with the murder of 29 people in the largest terrorist bombing in the history of Northern Ireland's "troubles." The 1998 Omagh bombing [BBC archive...

A military judge at Fort Hood has rejected Pfc. Lynndie England's guilty plea in her Abu Ghraib prison scandal court-martial, torpedoing her plea agreement.2:51 PM ET - In declaring the mistrial, Col. James Pohl said statements by England about...

Report of Americans United for Separation of Church and State on Religious Coercion and Endorsement of Religion at the United States Air Force Academy, April 30, 2005 [prompting a May 3 announcement by Acting Air Force Secretary Michael L. Dominguez...

AP is reporting that Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin , previously demoted and stripped of his security clearance in the wake of August allegations that he had spied for Israel, was arrested Wednesday after turning himself in on charges...

Former Serbian police general Sreten Lukic pleaded not guilty Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to charges of overseeing the murder, deportation and persecution of Kosovo Albanians in 1999. Lukic,...