The Mississippi House Public Health Committee has approved a bill that would prohibit most abortions in the state, and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has said that he plans to sign the legislation if both houses of...
An Italian parliamentary commission has concluded that the Soviet Union backed the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehmet Ali Agca , in a report released on Thursday. The commission argues that the...
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday unanimously overturned a Quebec school board's ban on carrying Sikh ceremonial daggers at school, ruling that it infringed students' religious freedom under the Canadian Charter of Rights and...
Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared a national emergency in a taped television address Friday after uncovering a plot to oust her from office. The state of national emergency declaration issued...
Indian officials have arrested Alok Tomar, editor of the obscure Indian magazine Senior India, for publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Officials charged Tomar with hurting religious sentiments in India, although it is unknown whether the...
Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr. has launched a probe into the state's indigent defense system in response to funding and availability problems for public defenders, especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ,...
The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) released a report on Wednesday that criticizes the new federal bankruptcy law enacted in October 2005, saying the new law does little to...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has rejected a 7-year-old ban in New Jersey on the use of local roads by large rigs travelling interstate because it...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Holmes v. South Carolina , a case in which it will decide whether state courts can preclude defendants from presenting...
Former Serbian army officer Sasa Badnjar, a suspected accomplice of fugitive war criminal Ratko Mladic has been arrested for aiding Mladic's evasion of arrest, Serbian authorities said Thursday. Mladic has successfully avoided arrest, allegedly...
