The Federal Election Commission announced Thursday that the Democratic National Committee , the Rev. Jesse Jackson and two groups Jackson works closely will pay a total of $200,000 in civil fines for violations of campaign finance laws. The FEC investigated a total of $450,000 spent in the 2000 election campaign by Jackson with the Rainbow/PUSH [...]

The US House of Representatives has passed a $491 billion defense measure, HR 1815 , which among other things leaves any decisions on the placement of women in war zones up to the Pentagon pending Congressional approval. House Republicans had previously attempted to add an amendment to the bill which would limit womens' roles in [...]

Leading Thursday's international brief, government lawyers for the Royal Commission for Corruption Control have begun arguments before the commission in the case against former Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba , former Foreign Minister Prakash Man Singh and other charged by the government of embezzling public funds from the Melamchi Drinking Water Project. The alleged [...]

As the search for bodies entered its 8th day Thursday, a Chilean military prosecutor said the officers commanding 46 teenage soldiers killed in a blizzard during a training march in the Andes face possible charges and prison sentences. According to Colonel Sergio Cea of the International Association for Military Justice , the three officers involved [...]

Log of (and links to) FBI records of interviews with Guantanamo detainees in 2002 and 2003 concerning treatment of prisoners and of the Koran by US personnel . Read the full text of the interview records here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The National Conference of State Legislatures , a body which tracks state law developments, has found 26 states are considering new proposals for voting laws. The most important issue under review in many states is proof of identity for valid voters, with two general competing viewpoints: one that wants more restrictions and regulations to counter [...]

With the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre approaching, NATO Wednesday and Thursday intensified its search for Bosnian war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic with raids by US troops on the homes of his family members in Pale. Bosnia. Karadzic has been charged with genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for his [...]

The US Marine Corps said Thurday that all charges against 2nd Lt. Ilario G. Pantano , accused of murdering two Iraqis during a vehicle stop, would be dropped. The statement out of Camp Lejeune in North Carolina said that after an investigation by Maj. Gen. Richard Huck , the charges of premeditated murder were dismissed. [...]

The Commissioner of the UN International Independent Investigation into the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri arrived in Beirut on Thurday to begin his inquiries. Commissioner Detlev Mehlis, a veteran German prosecutor, was authorized by the UN Security Council to make the investigation after Lebanon's own inquiry was found to be "seriously flawed." A [...]

Alleged Real IRA member Sean Gerard Hoey was formally charged Thursday with murdering 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bombing , the worst terrorist attack in Northern Ireland history. Hoey had been being held for earlier charges of possessing explosives and his alleged membership with the Real IRA. The only other conviction made in connection [...]