The number of hate groups in the US rose to more than 1,000 during 2010, according to a report released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) . The SPLC reports this is the...

Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie (D) signed the same-sex civil unions bill into law on Wednesday, legalizing same-sex civil unions in the state. The legislation will go into...

The Indiana Senate on Tuesday approved a bill by a vote of 31-18, proposing a strict illegal immigration policy comparable to the controversial Arizona law . The...

Former Libyan Justice Minister Mustafa Abel-Jalil on Wednesday alleged that Muammar Gaddafi ordered the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, according to Swedish newspaper Expressen . During the 40-minute...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday convicted former senior Serbian police official Vlastimir Djordjevic on five counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, sentencing...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously in Walker v. Martin that a state law barring a prisoner from collaterally attacking his conviction is adequate to...

Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday that the ICC cannot investigate possible crimes in Libya because the country is not a party to the Rome Statute ....

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously reversed a California appeals court ruling in Williamson v. Mazda Motors of America , finding that a federal minimum safety standard does...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that it will no longer defend the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) , which defines marriage for federal...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases: one determining whether a court may modify a sentence when the US Sentencing Commission has subsequently lowered the sentence range...