Jury selection began Wednesday in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida for the torture trial of Charles McArthur Emmanuel , son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Earlier this month, Emmanuel pleaded...

Thirteen state attorneys general urged the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Wednesday to withdraw a proposed rule that they said could threaten women's access to abortion and birth control....

The Thailand Court of Appeals ruled against former Thai prime minister Samak Sundaravej Thursday, upholding defamation convictions against him and an associate, Dusit Siriwan. The charges stem from a 2006 television appearance in which...

Former Rwandan deputy state prosecutor Siméon Nchamihigo was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Nchamihigo was charged with four counts of genocide, murder, extermination, and...

Congress passed legislation Tuesday to reduce inequities in the insurance coverage of mental health and addiction treatment, bringing the insurance costs for such treatment in line with those of conventional medical procedures. The bill, known...

The Finnish Interior Ministry on Wednesday announced that it is drafting new gun control legislation in response to the fatal shootings of 10 people at...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday entered a not guilty plea and ordered a psychiatric evaluation in the trial of Aafia Siddiqui , a Pakistani woman...

Prosecutors in the case of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic filed a motion to amend his indictment in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently investigating Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, and AIG along with 22 other financial institutions for possible mortgage fraud , US media outlets reported Tuesday. The investigations...

US Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann , chief judge of US military commissions , said Tuesday at a pretrial hearing for five suspects in the September 11 attacks that he is...