US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) said Sunday that he will support the nomination of former federal judge Michael Mukasey as US attorney general. Mukasey's nomination has come under fire over...
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 17-4 Wednesday to send the 1994 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to the full US Senate for ratification. The...
The Italian judge presiding over the trial of 26 US CIA agents and two former Italian intelligence officials in the 2003 abduction and rendition of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr [JURIST news...
The US Department of Justice has asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to dismiss a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan on the grounds that the case would disclose classified information...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon issued an order staying the execution of Virginia death row inmate Christopher Scott Emmett , who had been scheduled to be put to death at 9 PM...
Erik Prince, founder and owner of private security firm Blackwater USA , said Sunday that his company welcomes the ongoing US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into the killing of 17 Iraqis...
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Saturday called on citizens worldwide to "break the silence" and pressure their governments to help apprehend Sudanese war crimes suspects in Darfur for prosecution by the...
US District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday blocking the implementation of new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations intended to make it...
Former US President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that under the Bush administration the United States "for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned the basic principles of human rights". He told CNN's Wolf...
Russian police Saturday briefly detained five foreign activists in Nizhny Novgorod on charges of violating the terms of their Russian travel visas. The activists were detained for approximately four and a half hours, and were ordered to pay a...
