A federal judge ruled Friday that the state of California can move forward with plans to execute a convicted rapist and murderer later this week. Albert Brown was convicted of raping and murdering a 15-year-old...
Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla violated international law, according to a report released Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) . After conducting numerous interviews with eye-witnesses and viewing other evidence,...
Florida's Third District Court of Appeal on Wednesday struck down a state law prohibiting gay couples from adopting, finding that it failed rational basis review and violated the state constitution's equal protection clause....
A man found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 1985 Air India bombings was found guilty Saturday of perjury. Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only person convicted for his role in the 1985...
A Long Island man was charged Wednesday with providing funds to the man who attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square in May. The US Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, FBI and New...
An Icelandic parliamentary commission on Saturday recommended that the country's former prime minister and three other former governmental ministers be tried for negligence for their roles in the country's 2008 financial crisis. The nine-member Special Investigation Committee (SIC) published...
A Somali man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to piracy charges stemming from an attack on a Danish ship carrying cargo from a Texas-based company. Jama Idle Ibrahim pleaded guilty in the US District...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision Friday allowing two people to file habeas corpus petitions against removal orders from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) despite provisions...
An independent journalist is expected to go on trial for allegedly libeling Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abult Gheit according to Sunday press reports. Gheit alleges that Hamdi Qandeel insulted him in an article he wrote...
An appeals court in Argentina Friday reopened an investigation into crimes against humanity committed in Spain during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War and the subsequent regime of General Francisco Franco . The Spanish government adopted an amnesty law...
