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Washington Post

It was only after a jury convicted two men of supporting terrorism that the flimsiness of the government's case became clear. As hidden evidence spilled out and the Justice Department abandoned the effort, federal investigators began to wonder wh

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Associated press

Nicolas Carranza, 72, failed to stop crimes against humanity when he was a top commander of El Salvador's security forces, the US jury found Friday. He was held responsible in civil claims by Alvarado and three others who said they were tortured

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Reuters

Nearly three dozen members of Congress, including leaders from both parties, pressed the government to block a Louisiana Indian tribe from opening a casino while the lawmakers collected large donations from rival tribes and their lobbyist, Jack Abram

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Reuters

Republicans in the U.S. Congress said they were moving ahead with legislation that would speed up executions in the United States by limiting the ability of those sentenced to death to appeal to federal courts.

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Associated Press

The federal charge against three Chinese immigrants — failing to register as foreign agents — is a far cry from what investigators first alleged: a broad plot to steal secrets behind U.S. warship technology.

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For the second time, a federal judge has stopped the Pentagon from holding a war-crimes trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -- this time in the case of an Australian captive accused of fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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Reuters

A New Orleans judge on Monday ordered the release of two people arrested before Hurricane Katrina but never charged and threatened to free 21 other suspects this week if the city's crippled criminal justice system does not get moving.

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Associated Press

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito boasted about his work arguing that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" while trying to get a job in the Reagan administration as a deputy assistant attorney general, according to do

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Reuters

The United States plans to resume the war crimes trial of an Australian Guantanamo Bay prisoner this week without waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on the legality of these military tribunals.

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by Andrew S. Fischer (LewRockwell.com)

D.C. police are routinely arresting people for drunken driving, despite the fact that their breathalyzer tests score below the widely-accepted legal alcohol limit of .08%. Those arrested hadn't done anything, yet they were cuffed and hauled away,

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Reuters

A U.S. federal judge denied a new trial for a man convicted in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, but said government "incompetence" denied the man, said to be Osama bin Laden's personal secretary, some of his rights.

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New York Times

In the predawn hours, local police and state troopers, overdressed in SWAT-team regalia, roused 47 men and women from their homes in Tulia, hauled them (half dressed, their hair still uncombed) before news cameras, and charged them with dealing drugs

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Reuters

Federal judge Gerald Lee denied a request by a U.S. citizen, who has been charged with plotting to kill President Bush, to throw out confessions he signed while in Saudi custody where he claims he was tortured. Lee said he would explain his ruling at

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