The decision was a blow to prosecutors pursuing the longest-running death-penalty case in the military commission system.

The Washington State Legislature is considering a bill to make clergy members in the state mandatory reporters of child abuse ...

While most states include clergy on the list of mandated reporters, Washington is one of few states where they're not ...

The bill asks the priest to choose between criminal penalties or giving up his lifelong vocation. And that’s the type of activity that the First Amendment is designed to protect against.” ...

Senate Bill 5375 would require priests and other clergy to report child abuse and neglect. Washington State Senator Noel ...

Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the ...

Montana and Washington are among the states seeking to compel clergy to disclose abuse revealed to them in the context of the ...

Two Democratic state lawmakers are trying again to require clergy members in Washington to report child abuse or neglect, ...

While clergy are often mandatory reporters outside of the confessional, long-standing legal precedent in the U.S. recognizes ...

A group of Democrats in Montana introduced a bill that would require Catholic priests to disclose confessions related to ...

The man accused of being the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has agreed to let government prosecutors use portions of a 2007 confession that he says were obtained through ...

Lawyers for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed have said for years that the confession was tainted by torture ... Those deals were submitted to a military judge, under seal. Then, two days later, Defense ...