US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said Friday that he would not allow any further floor debate on the controversial asbestos compensation bill unless 60 senators pledged their support...
US Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) , chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee , said in an interview with the New York Times reported Saturday that he wants to bring the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news...
In comments after a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations Friday, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld flatly rejected the United Nation's call for the US to shut down its military detention...
The UK Daily Telegraph has said that it will drop any further appeals in its legal battle with British MP George Galloway . In January, the Telegraph lost its appeal when a British appeals...
US District Judge Henry Kennedy on Thursday ordered the US Department of Justice to respond to a FOIA request filed by the Electronic Information Privacy Center (EPIC) and produce documents related...
British legal experts and politicians are bracing for a major confrontation between the upper and lower houses of Parliament when the Terrorism Bill comes before the House of Lords again on February 28 after Wednesday's...
The United States has dismissed as a "discredit to the UN" a report released Thursday by UN special rapporteurs making up the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN Commission on Human Rights [official...
A US federal judge in California has ruled that the state must change the drugs it uses when executing prisoners, because the current method may constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. US...
The Committee to Protect Journalists has deplored media repression in over 50 countries in its latest annual report . Highlighting unprecedented violence against reporters in the Middle East, it also condemned legal sanctions such as imprisonment and...
Government officials in Haiti have announced plans to form a commission to review the contested results of that country's February 7 election . The commission will be composed of members of the president's...
