The convicted ringleader of abuses committed at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad was released Saturday after serving more than six-and-a-half years of his 10-year sentence. Army Spc. Charles Graner , who was being held...
A federal judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida has declared the state's controlled-substances laws, which criminalize the "unknowing" possession of a controlled substance, unconstitutional. The decision, issued on Wednesday,...
A federal judge on Friday reduced a $1.5 million jury verdict against a Minnesota woman who was found to have willfully shared music files to $54,000. Chief Judge Michael Davis of the US District Court for the...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday ruled that two former Guantanamo detainees cannot continue to litigate their habeas corpus petitions and refused to order the Government to rescind...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Sunday urged Senegal not to deport former Chadian president Hissene Habre back to Chad, where he has been sentenced to death. Pillay advised...
The Republic of South Sudan was recognized as an independent country on Saturday, making it the world's 193rd nation. In the capital city of Juba, President Salva Kiir was sworn in for a four-year term,...
Moroccan voters on Friday overwhelmingly approved a revised version of the constitution, highlighted by fewer powers reserved for their king. With 94 percent of polling stations reporting and 98 percent of voters in approval, Interior Minister Taib Cherkaoui announced...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Kansas on Friday issued a preliminary injunction to block a Kansas regulation requiring clinics within the state to obtain a license to perform abortions [JURIST...
Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) on Friday signed into law two bills that affect the procedures surrounding a woman's ability to receive an abortion within the state. The first, HB 1127 [text,...
An appeals panel for the US Court of Military Commission Review on Friday upheld the conviction of former Osama Bin Laden driver and Guantanamo Bay detainee, Salim Ahmed Hamdan...
