According to a court filing by his attorneys, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , a Virginia man accused of conspiring to assassinate President Bush and supporting al-Qaida , was tortured while in Saudi custody. Defense attorneys cited the...

Leaders of both parties brought race into the equation Thursday in the continuing Senate floor fight over President Bush's judicial nominees and the Senate's own filibuster rules. GOP Majority Leader Bill Frist held a news...

A federal judge issued a second 10-day restraining order Thursday blocking US congressional efforts to obtain documents that former investigator Robert Parton took with him when he resigned his role in the probe of the UN Oil-for-Food...

Nine individuals have been served search warrants as part of the federal investigation into the theft of over 300,000 personal records taken during a digital break-in of LexisNexis Inc. disclosed earlier this year. Personal computers...

Rwandan Defense Minister General Marcel Gatsinzi apologized Thursday before a Gacaca court for taking part in the country's 1994 genocide . Minister Gatsinzi is the first high-ranking official to request a pardon for his role in...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has refused to sign a controversial bill that would have severely limited the rights of NGOs to act in Zimbabwe , according to newspaper reports. The Non-Governmental Organisations...

The leaders of French, Germany, and Poland banded together Thursday in defense of the EU Constitution just ten days before the French vote on the document. French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerard Schroeder, and Polish President Aleksander...

Three hedge-fund managers must pay $2.4M to settle charges that the companies used illegal stock trading tactics to profit off 22 other companies. Galleon Management LP, Oaktree Capital Management LLC and DB Investment Managers Inc. were alleged by the...

Real IRA member Sean Gerard Hoey faces 61 new charges connected to the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed 29 people and injured over 300. Hoey was already faced murder charges for his involvement...

Anti-Castro Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles was been charged by US immigration officials Thursday with illegally entering the country. Carriles, wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for his alleged connection to a 1976 bombing of a Cuban...