A Bolivian constitutional convention championed by President Evo Morales was set to open Sunday with the goal of rewriting the country's constitution . Morales and his Movement Towards Socialism party have...
Voters in Chile elected Michelle Bachelet as president with 56 percent of the vote in a runoff election Sunday. Bachelet and her parents were imprisoned and tortured in 1973 under the regime...
California executed 76-year old Clarence Ray Allen Tuesday morning, despite protests that executing the ailing inmate was cruel and unusual punishment. Allen, who was blind, nearly deaf and confined to a wheelchair, was California's oldest death...
In the months following Sept. 11, the National Security Agency provided a "flood" of surveillance information to the FBI, most of which proved to be worthless and a waste of FBI resources, and which...
Electoral results released by the Independent Electoral Commission in the Democratic Republic of Congo Wednesday certify the landslide approval of the new Congolese constitution ....
Mehmet Ali Agca , a Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released from a Turkish prison Thursday to cheers from a crowd of nationalist supporters. After serving 20...
A German court sentenced Iraqi Lokman Amin Mohammed to seven years in prison Thursday for recruiting fighters and raising money to support the insurgency in Iraq. Prosecutors say Mohammed played a key role in the Western Europe branch [JURIST...
Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee will continue their questioning of Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito into the fourth day of his confirmation hearings Thursday following Wednesday testimony dominated by...
The European Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld a law that requires airlines to pay compensation to passengers who experience long flight delays, overbooking and cancellation on flights to and from the European Union....
Judges who serve on the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) met with officials from the Department of Justice Monday for a closed-door briefing on the president's decision to allow warrantless domestic eavesdropping [JURIST news...
