Ohio Governor John Kasich signed new abortion restrictions into law Sunday night as part of the state's budget . The provisions will require ultrasounds for anyone seeking an abortion, make it more difficult for family...

A Bahraini high criminal court on Monday acquitted two police officers on trial for the torture of six Shiite doctors during the uprising against the Sunni regime in 2011. The Grand Criminal Court's Third Chamber acquitted the two officers...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday affirmed the 2011 convictions and sentences of three former Wall Street traders who were charged in a broad crackdown on insider trading which has...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday overturned a lower court decision that had allowed authors challenging Google's digital books project to sue as a group . Google has scanned...

Senegalese police on Sunday detained former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre . Habre has been under house arrest in Senegal since 2005. Senegal and the African Union (AU) signed an agreement in...

The chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Kansas on Sunday refused to block a portion of a Kansas abortion law that requires abortion providers' websites to contain a link to...

US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Sunday rejected a request by Proposition 8 supporters to block the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses in California. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) ,...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged European Union's High Representative Catherine Ashton and other EU member states' representatives to condemn Saudi Arabia for recently convicting seven governmental critics of inciting protests through...

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) , a Christian legal advocacy group, filed an emergency petition on Saturday, stating that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's recent decision lifting California's ban on...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Friday ruled that a Fremont, Nebraska ordinance that bans renting to undocumented immigrants is constitutional. The panel held that...