The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to close a loophole in federal law with a bill that would bar terrorism suspects on watch lists from buying guns, the Apr 27, 2007 1:28 PM CDT
Authorities in Denver conducted a massive sweep at dawn today and arrested dozens of alleged street gang members. The case reportedly involved extensive wiretapping and has developed information concerning the…
The U.S. Justice Department is seeking greater restrictions on lawyers representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay, saying they are causing “intractable problems and threats to security.”
Acting on a government motion, a federal judge has withdrawn a ruling that the Bush administration unconstitutionally designated 27 groups and individuals as terrorists, the New…
In what may be the first of dozens of new prosecutions of foreign detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. military charged a Canadian with murder and other crimes…
In a pretrial hearing for Jose Padilla, expected to go to trial on terrorism-related charges in federal court in Miami next month, the judge made a startling comment.
In the second day of what is expected to be a several-month trial over the murders 13 years ago of 10 Belgian peacekeeping troops in Rwanda, along with the country’s…
The man known as the so-called “American Taliban,” sentenced to 20 years in prison in a plea deal, has seen two others charged with similar crimes get little in the…
A law student at the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall is accused of having made a threatening Internet chat board post that prompted its sister law school, Hastings,…
Dubious data is being used by both sides in the gun control debate ignited by Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech, reports the Wall Street Journal (sub.…
On this day in 1871, Congress passed a law intended to end the terror tactics being used against African-Americans and others by a white supremacist group called the Ku Klux…
Shocked by Virginia Tech’s horrifying experience on Monday, other institutions of higher learning are now taking no chances about closing their campuses as soon as they hear of a possible…
On this day in 1865, U.S. Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, diplomats and military leaders paid their respects to President Abraham Lincoln as his body lay in state at…
A Pakistani man appeared in court last week for the first time in his home country after allegedly being abducted from South Africa 18 months ago and held secretly in…
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