The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs voted Tuesday in favor of the Global Online Freedom Act of 2007 , a bill aimed at preventing US Internet companies from turning over users' personal information to...
Spanish anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzon issued indictments for 22 people on charges of participating in or collaborating with a terrorist organization that recruits fighters to aid al Qaeda in Iraq, the Spanish National Court...
The highest court in New York state Tuesday narrowly ruled against overturning state precedent holding the state's death penalty law unconstitutional. Urged to create an exception for a man who murdered five people at a Queens Wendy's...
A Dallas federal judge declared a mistrial Monday on nearly all 197 counts in a controversial case against the Islamic Holy Land Foundation charity and five of its leaders. Judge A. Joe Fish took...
A Supreme Court of Pakistan justice said at a hearing Monday on the results of the recent presidential election ostensibly re-electing President Pervez Musharraf that the spectre of martial law continues "haunting" the country, despite efforts to...
Reversing the US Supreme Court's abortion decision in Roe v. Wade would not prevent wealthy women from getting abortions, but would have a "devastating" effect on underprivileged females, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said...
The United States has gained ground as a country protecting press freedom, according to the sixth annual Worldwide Index of Freedom issued Tuesday by Reporters Without Borders (RWB) . RWB listed Eritrea, North Korea, and Turkmenistan...
US Attorney General nominee Michael B. Mukasey told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that he will work to balance national security and civil liberties if confirmed as the next attorney general. During...
Pakistani Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sher Afgan Niazi said Tuesday that martial law may be declared in the country if the Supreme Court of Pakistan rules against President Pervez Musharraf's bid for re-election. Niazi said that his...
Representatives in the US House have begun to pull back support for a resolution labeling as genocide the World War I-era killings of over one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers [ANCA backgrounder; Turkish DC Embassy...
