The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday granted a request for bail by Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black . The court granted bail following last month's ruling [opinion, PDF;...

Judge Martin Feldman of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Friday refused to recuse himself from a case in which he has already overturned a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling...

Syrian Minister of Education Ghiath Barakat issued a directive Sunday forbidding students and teachers at universities from wearing the niqab . The ban applies to both public and...

The lack of a concrete legal mandate for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) , constant infighting within the intelligence community and an unprecedented expansion of resources and intelligence-gathering capacities following the 9/11 attacks have...

The National Security Services in Sudan (NISS) are brutally suppressing internal dissent and targeting rights workers in the process, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report issued Monday. AI documented cases of arbitrary...

An Oklahoma district judge issued an injunction Monday morning extending a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a new law that requires women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound and hear...

The Swiss Federal Administrative Court announced Monday that an agreement with the US, allowing Swiss bank UBS to disclose account information of clients suspected by the...

The former defense lawyer for Australian ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Sunday that his former client should be cleared of all links to terrorism because he never committed a crime. The lawyer, Steve Kenny,...

Backlogs at US immigration courts are up by more than 30 percent in the past 18 months, according to a Syracuse University research center study . The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse study found that the 4,145 cases...

The Russian Federation Council on Monday approved legislation that will allow the country's secret police, the Federal Security Service (FSB) , to question citizens about their actions related to crimes that have not yet...