Former Colombian militia leader Salvatore Mancuso pleaded not guilty in a Florida court Thursday to drug trafficking charges after being extradited to the US Tuesday on suspicion of organizing violent massacres and drug smuggling operations. Mancuso and...
The Supreme Court of California Thursday overturned a state ban on same-sex marriage , ruling 4-3 in In re Marriage Cases that the ban violated protections on the right to "form...
UK ministers and MPs deadlocked Wednesday over a controversial proposed anti-terror bill that would allow British authorities to detain terror suspects up to 42 days without charge . Prime Minister Gordon Brown has...
Myanmar's draft constitution has been approved with over 90 percent of 22 million eligible voters voting yes in Saturday's nation-wide referendum , the country's military government said Thursday. The regime has faced sharp international criticism...
A Texas appeals court Wednesday overturned a jury verdict that found pharmaceutical giant Merck liable for the death of a 71-year-old man who died from a heart attack within a month of taking...
The Danish government said Wednesday that it would propose new legislation to ban sitting judges from wearing religious dress , including Islamic headscarves, in court. Also Wednesday, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen criticized Immigration...
The Indiana Court of Appeals Tuesday ruled that a 2006 state law barring convicted sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school, public park or youth center is unconstitutional...
The curator of a Russian art gallery has been charged with "inciting hatred" for hosting an exhibit of art banned from other galleries, including pieces that mocked the Russian Orthodox Church and the nation's military,...
A coalition of anti-war activists represented by the Constitutional Law Clinic at Rutgers University Law School-Newark Tuesday filed a lawsuit in US District Court for New Jersey seeking a declaratory judgment that...
The US Department of Defense has still not issued security clearances to civilian lawyers seeking to participate in the defense of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other detainees held...
