Mar 04 Watch Los Angeles: Paying for Readiness The city of Los Angeles is hard at work implementing homeland security measures -- and hard-pressed to find ways to pay for them. Jeffrey Kaye reports. Continue watching
Mar 03 Supreme Court Hears Court-Ordered Medication Case By Admin The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case testing whether courts can force a mentally ill defendant to take anti-psychotic drugs in order to become competent to stand trial. Continue reading
Feb 27 Bosnian Serb Leader Sentenced to 11 Years The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague on Thursday sentenced former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic, who pleaded guilty to war crimes committed against non-Serbs during the 1992-95 war in Bosnian, to 11 years in prison. Continue reading
Feb 26 Supreme Court Rules for Protesters in Civil Disobedience Case By Admin The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that anti-abortion activists did not break federal racketeering and extortion laws in their protests outside abortion clinics, ending an injunction that barred the groups from interfering in clinic business. Continue reading
Feb 26 Watch Judicial Politics The debate in the U.S. Senate over the judicial nomination of Miguel Estrada has stretched into its third week. Two U.S. Senators discuss the embattled nomination and the politics of the confirmation process. Continue watching
Feb 26 Watch Background: Judicial Politics The Senate has debated the judicial nomination of Miguel Estrada for three weeks. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Feb 25 Supreme Court Sides With Inmate’s Claims of Jury Racial Bias By Admin The Supreme Court sided Tuesday with an African American inmate on Texas' death row who claimed that prosecutors used racial practices to stack the jury in his capital murder trial with whites. Continue reading
Feb 25 Former Qwest Officials Indicted on Fraud Charges Four former executives from Qwest Communications have been charged with crafting a $33 million fraudulent business scheme, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Tuesday. Continue reading
Feb 24 Watch The Patriot Act Tom Bearden takes a look at how civil liberties are faring in the war on terrorism. Continue watching
Feb 21 R.I. Nightclub Fire Kills At Least 95 A Rhode Island nightclub erupted in flames Thursday night during a pyrotechnics display at a rock concert, killing at least 95 people and injuring more than 160 others as concertgoers rushed to escape. Continue reading