The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in South Carolina v. North Carolina that the Catawba River Water Supply Project (CRWSP), and Duke Energy Carolinas may intervene...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 7-2 in Wood v. Allen that a state court reasonably concluded that, during the sentencing phase of a capital case,...

Kenya's Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) decided Tuesday not to grant women equal marriage rights to men in the new constitution. References to civil society, religious groups, and rights of gays were also omitted as the PSC...

The federal trial of Aafia Siddiqui , a Pakistani woman with alleged ties to al Qaeda, began Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York . Siddiqui is charged ...

UK-based human rights group Reprieve issued a statement Tuesday suggesting that the Obama administration has suppressed information relating to the investigation of three 2006 Guantanamo Bay suicides and urging further inquiries. The statement comes...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that 22 individuals were indicted for violating federal bribery laws in an effort to obtain foreign business contracts. An undercover operation conducted by the FBI...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In the combined cases of Mac's Shell Service, Inc. v. Shell Oil Products Co. [oral arguments transcript, PDF;...

The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 telephone records between 2002 and 2006 by claiming the phone calls being made related to possible terrorism emergencies, according to a Washington Post report Tuesday. According to the article, the Department...

Slovakia's Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday that the government will accept three inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The ministry stated that this was a "gesture of solidarity" in support of President...

An appeals court in Malaysia ruled on Tuesday that the country's ban on sodomy is constitutional. The court made the ruling while considering the appeal of Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahaman, who was convicted of sodomizing a 14-year-old...