A former civilian Arabic translator at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp pleaded guilty Monday to charges of mishandling classified information and lying to investigators. Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, a naturalized US citizen of Egyptian origin, has been...

AP is reporting that President Bush has selected US Third Circuit Court of Appeals judge and former Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff to be the new secretary of Homeland Security, according to officials speaking Tuesday....

Six individuals, two former AOL executives and four former executives from the now-defunct PurchasePro software company, have been charged in an ongoing investigation into a secret negotiation between the two companies to artificially increase PurchasePro's revenues. Federal...

Michael Newdow {JURIST Newsmaker], the same individual who sued to have the words "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, has filed a suit to bar the planned recitation of a prayer at the presidential inauguration ...

Two Iraqis formerly held as detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad are scheduled to testify by videotape today as part of the prosecution of Spc. Charles Graner on multiple charges [original chargesheet;...

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Monday that a Bible had to be removed from a display funded by the private homeless mission Star of Hope outside the courthouse in Harris County, Texas...

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has announced in the House of Commons that the last four Britons held by the US at the terror suspect detention camp at Guantanamo Bay will be released in...

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine late Monday certified opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko the winner of the December 26 re-vote over former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukoyvch. Under Ukrainian law the certification must now be approved by the...

Internal audit reports on the UN Oil-for-Food Programme, UN Office of Internal Oversight Services; posted by the Independent Inquiry Committee Into the UN Oil-for-Food Programme, January 9, 2005 [concluding that although the program was plagued by mismanagement, especially in the...

Testimony of Dean Harold Hongju Koh, Yale Law School, on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for the post of US Attorney General, January 6, 2005. Read the full text of Koh's statement here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....