The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted 95-58 Thursday in favor of a bill to allow the governor to appoint a temporary replacement for the late Edward Kennedy (D-MA) on the US Senate . The...

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday granted the habeas corpus petition filed by Guantanamo Bay detainee Fouad Al Rabiah, ordering his release. Al Rabiah,...

The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the state's voter identification requirement is unconstitutional. The provision, section IC 3-11-8-25.1 of the Indiana Code, required individuals who wished to cast an official ballot in person to...

A former Rwandan government official pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of complicity in genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Michel Bagaragaza accepted charges that he funded,...

A judge in the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled Thursday that the City of Pittsburgh must allow a tent city protest during next week's Group of 20 (G-20) ...

UK Home Secretary Alan Johnson said Wednesday that the government will conduct a review of the control order house arrest system in light of a June Law Lords ruling [judgment, PDF; JURIST...

A Virginia court on Wednesday set a November 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad , who was convicted of murder in 2005 for his role in a series of DC-area sniper shootings . Prosecutors had...

The Obama administration on Wednesday sought a two-month delay in trials for detainees at Guantanamo Bay while new options are considered. While trials have been on hold since President Barack Obama announced the planned...

California courts were closed Wednesday in the first of what will be a monthly shut down of the judiciary in an effort to reduce the state's budget gap. The closures were authorized as part of California Code 68070 ,...

FBI Director Robert Mueller addressed the FBI's role in leading the new specialized interrogation group to question top terrorist suspects as well as many other topics in a wide ranging oversight hearing before the...