The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in four cases Tuesday. In Cunningham v. California, the Court will consider whether California's determinate sentencing law is invalid because judges are able to impose increased sentences based on their own findings of fact rather than those of the jury. In Global Crossing v. Metrophones, the Court will consider [...]

Three Ohio men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for planning terrorist attacks on US military overseas , according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. The men were recruited by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , who leads al Qaeda in Iraq, and were involved in recruiting other members starting in November 2004 to prepare for [...]

Reuters is reporting that top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested, according to Serbian news sources. Mladic's arrest has not been officially confirmed. The former general has been charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with genocide for the execution of over 7,000 Muslim prisoners, and for [...]

The Australian judicial inquiry looking into allegations that leading Australian wheat exporter Australian Wheat Board (AWB) provided over $200 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime as part of the now-defunct UN oil-for-food program has expanded its scope and will also try to learn what government officials knew about the alleged scam. Commission head [...]

The UK High Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by three UK bankers to halt their extradition to the US to face fraud charges in connection with the Enron scandal. The British government ordered the extradition of David Bermingham, Giles Darby and Gary Mulgrew, former Natwest bank executives, after they were indicted in Texas on [...]

British historian David Irving has said he will appeal the three-year sentence he received after pleading guilty Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust . Irving was charged in connection to two speeches he gave in Austria in 1989, in which he denied that Nazis used gas chambers at Auschwitz during the World War II [...]

Minority voters in the United States still face unfair poll tactics and barriers that disenfranchise them, according to a major study released Tuesday by the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act , a project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law . The group intends to use the report to lobby Congress [...]

The US Supreme Court issued two decisions Tuesday, including a ruling in Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal , 04-1084, in which the Court held that a church congregation could use hallucinogenic tea as part of a religious ceremony to connect with God. In a unanimous opinion authored by Chief Justice John [...]

Liberian and UN officials on Monday inaugurated a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights abuses during the country's war-torn rule from 1979-2003. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf presided over the swearing-in of the nine commission members, and she called the commission an opportunity to "bring forth a unifying narrative." The commission, modeled after [...]

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday sentenced to death eleven members of Jund Allah, an Islam group linked to al Qaeda , after they were convicted of killing ten people in an attack on a convoy escorting Pakistani Lieutenant General Ahsan Saleem Hayat in June 2004. Hayat escaped unharmed, but six soldiers and four [...]