The US Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility has reopened an investigation into the administration's domestic surveillance program after recently being granted the necessary security clearances previously denied to DOJ investigators, OPR chief H. Marshall Jarrett said in a Tuesday letter to US Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) . The internal investigation into the role [...]

The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the language of an anti-abortion group's proposed ballot initiative that would amend the Colorado constitution to define a fertilized egg as a "person" entitled to "inalienable rights, equality of justice, and due process of law" under the state constitution. The group, Colorado for Equal Rights for Human Life, [...]

An FBI investigation has concluded that private security personnel in Iraq shot and killed 14 Iraqi civilians without justification during a September 16 incident in Baghdad, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The investigators found that many as five Blackwater USA guards fired on civilians during the shootings, which killed 17 Iraqi civilians and prompted [...]

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has admitted that it has several recorded interrogations of suspected "enemy combatants," contrary to previous assertions. According to a letter released Tuesday, the agency mistakenly denied in court declarations that it possessed one audio and two video tapes during the trial of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui . Moussaoui [...]

Canada's ruling Conservative Party government Tuesday reintroduced two Senate reform bills that would abolish government-appointed senators and limit the number of terms a senator could serve. The first bill would allow each province to vote to fill vacancies in the Senate. The federal prime minister would then rely on the results to appoint the preferred [...]

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Tuesday signed a bill which mandates that abortion clinic protesters stand no closer than 35 feet from entrances of reproductive health care facilities. The new law , now one of the nation's strictest on clinic protesters, amends Massachusetts' 2000 floating buffer-zone law , which established specific restrictions in the 18-foot [...]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told the UN Security Council that he is nominating Serge Brammertz to replace Carla Del Ponte as the next chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Brammertz is currently serving as the head of a UN probe into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime [...]

Anonymous : "This evening I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting with four very important judges of the Lahore High Court who refused to take oaths under the Provisional Constitutional Order promulgated by the Chief of the Army Staff on the evening of the 3rd of November. It is very unfair that not only [...]

A week-long meeting of parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) concluded Tuesday without delegates reaching an agreement on a legally binding ban on cluster munitions . Representatives from 102 nations did agree to negotiate a new pact regarding "the humanitarian impact of cluster munitions," but failed to agree on a complete ban. [...]

The US Army has issued a statement to top personnel reiterating the Army's ban on waterboarding as an interrogation technique, AP reported Tuesday. The Army officially banned the use of waterboarding in September 2006 with the release of the interrogation guide Field Manual 2-22.3 , which deemed it a "prohibited action." The November 6 "strategic [...]