Two Libyans thought to be involved in carrying out bombing

US Attorney General Eric Holder sought to reassure the people of Ferguson about the inquiry into the shooting death of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer.

His great uncle was JFK and his grandfather was the former US Attorney General but Congressman Joseph Patrick III is relying on more than just his name to put emigrant issues on the map. He talks to Robert Mulhern.

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JP Morgan Chase & Co has reached a $13bn (€9.5bn) deal with the US Justice Department and other government agencies to settle investigations into bad mortgage loans the bank sold to investors before the financial crisis.

The Attorney general of the United States has warned the whistleblower who leaked details on the country’s internet spying tactics that he will be caught.

IN reading Mr Dave Reilly’s comment regarding Dr Michael Murphy’s invitation (March 26) to have President Barack Obama lecture at UCC, I agree that the offer should be withdrawn.

The US government is to sue BP for costs and damages in a bid to recoup billions of dollars after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

BP was fighting to secure its future today as the US government launched a criminal and civil investigation into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The Times Square bomb suspect was due to appear in court today as a massive investigation continued across the US.

US authorities have arrested a 24-year-old airport shuttle driver and his father as part of their terrorism investigation in New York and Colorado.

THE US government has launched a criminal investigation into CIA interrogations as a declassified report revealed threats to kill a suspect’s children and the use of an electric drill to scare another detainee.

Barack Obama absolved CIA officers from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects, even as his administration released Bush-era memos graphically detailing and authorising the grim tactics.

SHADES of the US South’s racist past came creeping back this week just as the South could be poised to play a pivotal role in electing the nation’s first black president.

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under fire from congressional Democrats, has resigned, senior Bush administration officials said today.

A newspaper in the UK has banned visitors to its website from commenting on stories about missing Madeleine McCann after it was bombarded with “spiteful and defamatory” comments about her parents.

The father of missing Madeleine McCann had a “productive and interesting” meeting with US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today to discuss efforts to tackle child abduction, a family spokesman said.

Iraq’s High Tribunal today found Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang for the 1982 killing of 148 Shiites in the city of Dujail. The visibly shaken former leader shouted “God is great”.

The chief judge in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial threw the ex-president out of the Baghdad courtroom today in a stormy session boycotted by the former ruler’s defence team.

Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial resumed in Baghdad today, but without lawyers representing the former Iraqi president or any of the other six defendants. Saddam was present in the courtroom.

Michael Jackson claims to have discovered a conspiracy by his former employees to force him into bankruptcy.

SADDAM HUSSEIN’S trial turned chaotic shortly after resuming yesterday, with one defendant dragged out of court and the defence team walking out in protest.

The resumption of Saddam Hussein’s mass murder trial was delayed for several hours today, apparently as the sides wrangled over a last-minute shake-up in the court in which a new chief judge was appointed.

Saddam Hussein’s trial was to resume today, a day after court officials named a new chief judge and ousted another jurist off the five-member panel trying the former Iraqi leader.

Saddam Hussein was expected to show up when his Baghdad trial reconvenes today, two weeks after he boycotted the last session and vowed not to appear before an “unjust” court.

Three men threatened Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer as he boarded a plane from Baghdad to Jordan today, and they were removed from the flight, the Iraqi lawyer and his colleague, ex-US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, said.

SADDAM Hussein warned the judge in his trial yesterday that he could be held accountable for his actions during the proceedings.

Saddam Hussein warned the judge in his trial today that he could be held accountable for his actions during the proceedings.

The trial of Saddam Hussein resumes today – after Iraqi authorities said they had foiled an insurgent plot to fire rockets at the courtroom.

One of the five judges in the Saddam Hussein trial has stepped down after learning that one of the defendants may have been involved in the execution of his brother, a court official said today.

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark said today he met with deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein yesterday and found him in “very good spirits”.

A combative Saddam Hussein lashed out today over his treatment by US guards and demanded that the chief judge stand up to American “occupiers and invaders” as his trial for crimes against humanity resumed in a heavily guarded Baghdad court.

Saddam Hussein and others assembled today in a special Green Zone courtroom for resumption of his trial as the sound of mortar fire echoed through the centre of the Iraqi capital.

Iraqi police arrested eight Sunni Arabs for allegedly plotting to kill the judge who prepared the indictment of Saddam Hussein, the day before the ousted leader’s trial for crimes against humanity resumes.

The courtroom will be the same but uncertainty surrounds nearly everything else as the trial of Saddam Hussein resumes today after a five-week recess.

THE first prosecution witnesses are expected to testify today as the trial of Saddam Hussein resumes.

Four aid workers, including two Canadians, have been kidnapped in Iraq, a Canadian official said tonight, while Iraqi police have arrested eight Sunni Arabs for allegedly plotting to assassinate the investigating judge in the case against Saddam Hussein.

THE US Government has told a Texas court that Pope Benedict XVI should be given immunity from a lawsuit accusing him of conspiring to cover up the sexual molestation of three boys by a seminarian.

The recent terrorist attacks in London and Egypt appear to be the work of al-Qaida, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said yesterday.

US INVESTIGATORS, including CIA agents, will be allowed interrogate Irish citizens on Irish soil in total secrecy, under an agreement signed between Ireland and the US last week.

LATE on Tuesday of last week I got in to Dallas for the first time since I left there in 1973.

The man set to become the next US Attorney General vowed to abide by international treaties on prisoner treatment today.

US President George Bush arrives at work today knowing he needs to find a new Attorney General after John Ashcroft announced his resignation.

Imprisoned former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz has told his son that he faces the death sentence after being accused of responsibility for mass killings in 1979 and 1991.