A judge upheld guilty verdicts against five men convicted of plotting to attack Fort Dix. The defense argued there was no plot, but the government paid informants to get the accused to discuss one.
Nearly 7,000 Mexican soldiers and federal police arrived in Ciudad Juárez, as 20 inmates were killed in a turf war between rival gangs at a Chihuahua state prison in the border city.
Colombian para commander Hebert Veloza Garcia was extradited to the US—over the protests of rights groups who fear details of government collusion with the paras may never be revealed.
Meeting with members of indigenous and Afro-Colombian groups impacted by floods and displacement in Colombia, the top UN relief official called for stepped up aid for these communities.
Environmental groups in New York state are protesting Gov. David Paterson’s promise to power producers to rewrite the state’s role in nation’s first plan to cut greenhouse pollution.
Five people were arrested March 5 as they blocked an access road to protest blasting near a dam on the Edwight “mountaintop removal” coal mining site operated by Massey Energy in West Virginia. It was the latest in a wave… Read moreArrests in West Virginia coal mining protest
The US Supreme Court granted a motion by the government to dismiss as moot an appeal challenging the indefinite detention of suspected al-Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.
Afghanistan’s human rights progress has been thwarted by armed conflict, censorship, abuse of power, and violence against women, the UN Human Rights Council charges in a new report.
The CIA submitted a classified document to The Hague listing former Serbian intelligence chief Jovica Stanisic’s collaboration with the US spy agency’s intelligence activities in the ex-Yugoslavia.
Leon Panetta, in his first interview as CIA director, told reporters that President Obama will “continue a very aggressive effort to go after terrorists”—implying a widening of drone strikes in Pakistan.
The CIA has destroyed 92 tapes of interrogations of “terror” suspects, far more than previously acknowledged, government lawyers said in a letter filed as part of an ACLU lawsuit.
Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called for creation of a truth commission to investigate the national security policies of the Bush administration.
