A federal judge frees the convicted cop killer from death row, but makes it less likely he'll get to argue his innocence at a new trial.

President Obama has shut down the CIA's secret prisons, but that hasn't stopped rendition abroad

Investigators said to be looking into Gaetz's Bahamas trip, links to marijuana industry: report

A new report sparks an old debate about sex, power and money -- but the questions are more complicated than ever

Americans tortured. We've seen pictures. Reports prove it. Why does the media still refuse to call it what it is?

British author Alistair Horne explains what Pinochet, Sharon and Bush have all taken from his work, why peace means getting rid of the priests, and why Iraq is the wrong war in the wrong place.

As the two main factions of Iraq's dominant religious group descend into armed conflict, the U.S. military has already been forced to pick sides.

Despite orders to remain silent, radical imam Abu Omar tells of being abducted by the CIA, shuttled to Egypt and tortured for a year.

Anti-abortion protesters return to confrontation and threats at Kentucky's only clinic. Will violence follow?

Three of my regulars from Jeannie's Dream Dates had given me their cards. I decided to call them. Last in a series.

An empire built on autocrats, aristocrats, and uniformed thugs begins to totter

From Abu Ghraib to Abu Zubaydah, everything you need to know about torture during the Bush administration's war on terror.

After years of complaining about censorship, the death-row inmate seeks to muzzle his ex-attorney.