Eyewitness reports are showing that Rigoberto Alpizar , who was shot and killed onboard a plane at the Miami International Airport Wednesday, never claimed to have a bomb . Federal officials say they opened fire after Alpizar disobeyed their warnings to stop, reached into his backpack, and said he had a bomb. Passengers, however, who [...]

In order to comply with Thursday's judgment from the UK Law Lords banning the use of evidence obtained through torture, judges on Britain's Special Immigration Appeals Court (SIAC) will hold hearings early next year to determine whether evidence used in as many as 30 terrorism cases was obtained by torture. The SIAC hears appeals of [...]

Cambodia and the United Nations moved closer to beginning genocide trials for Khmer Rouge leaders with an announcement Friday that the UN-backed tribunal will begin setting up offices next month. A list of Cambodian and international candidates to serve as judges and prosecutors will be unveiled later in December. No former leader of the communist [...]

Daniel Hernandez et al. v. Victor L. Robles, Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, December 8, 2005 . Excerpt: The role of the courts is "to recognize rights that are supported by the Constitution and history, but the power to create novel rights is reserved for the people through the democratic and legislative processes" [...]

Khaled el-Masri , a German man at the heart of an ACLU lawsuit against the CIA alleging wrongful imprisonment , may have been targeted as a result of information Germany shared with the US, according to a German security official . In the complaint , El-Masri alleged that he was kidnapped in Macedonia and taken [...]

The US Department of Justice announced six arrests on Thursday in connection with a series of ecoterrorism attacks in the Pacific Northwest from 1998 to 2001. Four arsons and the destruction of a transmission tower owned by the Bonneville Power Administration , a government power agency, were the basis for the charges. The Animal Liberation [...]

Reversing a ruling made by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health , Governor Mitt Romney said Thursday that even private hospitals must provide emergency contraception pills to rape victims. The DPH had said that church-run and other private hospitals could opt out of a new law requiring them to provide the pills . Romney vetoed [...]

Republicans in Congress will look to give final approval to an extension of the Patriot Act powers next week, but criticism from both parties may lead to a filibuster or even defeat of the measure in the Senate. House and Senate negotiators reached a compromise Thursday about the provisions of the bill, but Senate Democratic [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that Poland housed the main CIA secret detention facility in Europe, with approximately 100 detainees. The accusations, published in the Polish daily, Gazeta Wyborcza , are based on information gathered from CIA sources and other documents obtained by the human rights group. The Polish facilities, according to HRW, were [...]

New Orleans Police Chief Warren Riley said Thursday that the city has fired 60 police officers and suspended 25 more for failing to show up for duty during Hurricane Katrina . Riley, who was sworn into office on Nov. 28, stated that cleaning the police department's image was a top priority. During the hurricane many [...]