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| 04/23/2005 Army Soldier Is Convicted In Attack on Fellow Troops
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| An Army sergeant who wanted to stop U.S. troops from killing his fellow Muslims was convicted by a military jury yesterday of murdering two colleagues and wounding 14 other soldiers in a chaotic grenade and rifle attack two days after the United States invaded Iraq.
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| 04/23/2005 Senate Urged to Probe CIA Practices
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| Taking to the Senate floor, the vice chairman of the intelligence committee chastised his colleagues yesterday for what he said was their failure to adequately monitor and evaluate the legality and effectiveness of the CIA's detention and interrogation practices.
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| 04/23/2005 Internet Drug Ring Broken
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| The Drug Enforcement Administration has shut down a major Internet drug ring run from Philadelphia by two foreign university students who allegedly sold millions of doses of controlled narcotics, steroids and amphetamines online without prescriptions, officials said yesterday.
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| 04/23/2005 U.N. Envoy To N. Korea Steps Aside For Probe
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| The United Nations' special envoy to North Korea, Maurice F. Strong, decided Wednesday to step aside until U.N.-appointed investigators and federal prosecutors finish examining his financial ties to a South Korean lobbyist accused of trying to bribe U.N. officials.
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| 04/23/2005 Muslims Detained at Border Sue U.S. Homeland Security
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| American Muslims detained at the border as they returned from a religious conference in Toronto sued the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday alleging they were targets of ethnic and religious profiling.
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| 04/23/2005 Whistle-Blower Argument Closed
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| A federal court in Washington yesterday took the rare step of closing an entire oral argument to the public in the case of a former FBI translator who says she was fired for complaining about security breaches.
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| 04/23/2005 18 More Detainees Leave Guantanamo
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| Release marks largest number of captives let go from the facility at one time since last September.
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| 04/23/2005 Reporters Lose In Appeals Court
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| Judge rejects request for a new hearing by two journalists who could face jail time for refusing to disclose their confidential sources.
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| 04/23/2005 Tex. Pressed on DNA Exonerations
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| In the state with the nation's busiest death row and an increasing number of post-conviction DNA exonerations, legislators are urging the governor to investigate the causes of mistaken convictions.
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| 04/23/2005 U.S. Extremist Groups Still Pose Threat
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| The possibility for domestic terrorism remains strong because of "lone wolf" actors who may have associated with militia groups and remain committed and violent, according to authorities.
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| 04/23/2005 The Force of Fear
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| A decade after the carnage in Oklahoma City, Washington can still feel the blast.
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| 04/23/2005 Utah Driver's License Curtailed as ID
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| The restrictions that undocumented immigrants face in Utah could be felt nationwide if Congress passes the Real ID Act.
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| 04/23/2005 Man Charged in Mass. Woman's Death
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| After more than three years of frustration, false leads and a controversial dragnet for DNA evidence, prosecutors announced Friday that police have arrested a suspect in the slaying of fashion writer Christa Worthington on Cape Cod.
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| 04/23/2005 American Indicted in Iraq Oil-for-Food Probe
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| A Texas oil executive, his two companies and two foreign associates were indicted Thursday on charges that they illegally paid millions of dollars to Iraqi officials in exchange for lucrative deals to buy discounted oil from the government of Saddam Hussein.
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| 04/23/2005 10,000 Fugitives Are Captured in Dragnet
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| The U.S. Marshals Service and local police agencies arrested more than 10,000 fugitives last week in an aggressive nationwide sweep that ranks as the largest single dragnet in U.S. history.
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| 04/23/2005 U.N. Votes To Outlaw Nuclear Terrorism
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| UNITED NATIONS, April 13 -- The 191-member U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday unanimously approved a treaty outlawing the use of nuclear weapons by terrorists and their supporters.
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| 04/23/2005 Guantanamo Detainee Suing U.S. to Get Video of Alleged Torture
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| A detainee at a U.S. military prison alleges that U.S. military guards jumped on his head until he had a stroke that paralyzed his face, nearly drowned him in a toilet and later broke several of his fingers, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court.
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| 04/23/2005 London Ricin Finding Called a False Positive
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| The claim that traces of the deadly poison ricin had been found in the London apartment of alleged al Qaeda operatives, first broadcast around the world in early January 2003, has been proved wrong, a senior British official said yesterday.
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| 04/23/2005 Jackson Accuser's Mom Takes Stand
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| The mother of the boy who has accused Michael Jackson of sexual molestation delivered a tear-filled account of what the prosecution charges was the pop star's conspiracy.
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| 04/23/2005 Olympic Park Bomber Pleads Guilty
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| ATLANTA, April 13 -- Serial bomber Eric Rudolph on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and two other Atlanta explosions after confessing earlier in the day to bombing an Alabama abortion clinic.
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