The United Nations Security Council on Friday discussed a report outlining UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's plans to reconfigure the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) now that...

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit Thursday against international trading fund Optiver Holding BV and some of its subsidiaries and employees, alleging that the company...

Three Department of Justice (DOJ) memos released Thursday indicate that certain enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding , are lawful and that those who employ them in good faith lack the specific intent required to...

The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a 2005 state law aimed at prosecuting smugglers hired to ferry illegal immigrants across the border into the US can also be used to prosecute the illegal immigrants....

A judge for the London High Court on Thursday ordered a British man to pay approximately $44,000 in damages for creating a fake profile on social networking website Facebook and posting defaming information about an...

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) said during a Committee hearing Friday that providing inducements to those who hold liens was the only practical legislative solution to the country's so-called "sub-prime mortgage collapse," and...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Friday that the right of EU citizens to live in any EU member state also extends to non-citizen spouses and relatives. Four Irish couples brought...

A Maryland judge Thursday rejected a challenge seeking to remove a referendum on a transgender anti-discrimination law from the November ballot. Circuit Court Judge Robert A. Greenberg ruled that the Montgomery County Board of Elections [official...

An Argentine court sentenced former general Luciano Benjamin Menendez and four others to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture, and killing of four political dissidents during the country's so-called "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity...

Lawyers and professors testified before the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Thursday that the government process used to arrest and convict illegal immigrants in Iowa in May was illegal and violated the immigrants'...