Protests continue in Egypt over two judges facing disciplinary hearings at Egypt's highest court for their criticism of parliamentary elections last year, which they and eight other judges claimed were marred by fraud. Judges Hisham...
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) officials said on Friday that the US has once again refused to grant the watchdog access to terror detainees held in covert prisons following discussions between ICRC President...
Zacarias Moussaoui , the convicted Sept. 11 conspirator, was spared the death penalty by a single member of the jury who remained anonymous throughout the deliberations, according to an article in Friday's...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 10-8 along party lines to send the circuit court nomination of White House aide Brett Kavanaugh to the full Senate for a confirmation vote. Kavanaugh, who has been...
US President George W. Bush on Thursday insisted that "the privacy of ordinary Americans is fiercely protected" as the government conducts anti-terrorist surveillance in the US. Bush's comments were in response to a report in Thursday's USA...
Less than a year before Germany takes over the European Union presidency in January 2007, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said again Thursday that she plans to revive the European constitution ,...
A committee of the American Bar Association has voted unanimously that judicial nominee Michael B. Wallace is "not qualified" to sit on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ....
The US Department of Justice has ended the internal investigation into the role its lawyers played in the NSA's domestic surveillance program approved by President Bush. The investigation had been headed by...
Former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling face an uphill battle after Judge Simeon T. Lake III agreed with prosecutors in the Enron trial Wednesday that jurors should be allowed to find...
The Constitutional Court of Colombia has handed down a decision legalizing exceptions to the country's abortion ban in cases of rape, incest and if the life of the mother...
