An FBI agent testifying at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial said interrogators did not advise detainees here of any rights because the military prison is dedicated to intelligence gathering, not law enforcement.
In five years, New Jersey residents seeking driver's licenses will have to decide whether they want to become organ donors under a new first-of-its kind law.
A swimming pool company president charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection with the drowning of a 6-year-old boy had been told about a law requiring a safety device but failed to install it in the pool, according to an arrest affidavit.
Iraq's parliament passed a law Tuesday meant to pave the way for provincial elections despite a Kurdish boycott, but critics warned it's unlikely the vote will be held this year as had been expected.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says he might pursue new gun restrictions in response to a recently enacted Georgia law that could allow people to carry concealed firearms in parts of the Atlanta airport.
Congress should explicitly declare a state of armed conflict with al Qaeda to make clear the United States can detain suspected members as long as the war on terrorism lasts, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Monday.
After serving eight months behind bars for a conviction of receiving stolen property, Annette McWashington Pruitt was excited about the prospect of being able to vote again.
BOSTON Governor Deval Patrick is chuckling at a report he could be a Supreme Court justice in a Barack Obama administration. The state's first black governor said he loves his current job and "intends" to run for reelection in 2010. He is also campaigning for Obama, a fellow Chicagoan and Harvard Law School graduate trying to become the first black ...
Prosecutors said Tuesday they want a 78-year-old man committed to a mental hospital after he was found incompetent to stand trial for killing two South Carolina law officers.
Be careful if you have saggy pants in the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood. Village leaders have passed an ordinance that would levy $25 fines against anyone showing three inches or more of their underwear in public.
Police in Missouri say a man has killed his wife and her sister, and has brutally beaten his brother in law, before taking his own life in a community outside St. Louis.
Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal law barring felons from owning guns after police found seven pistols, three shotguns and five rifles at his home south of Pittsburgh.
Starting Friday, doctors in South Dakota must tell women seeking abortions that the procedure ends a human life and may cause them psychological harm, the state attorney general said.
The Russian government will be able to handpick companies to develop the vast oil reserves believed to be located in the Russian Arctic under a new law signed Friday by President Dmitry Medvedev.
