Israel's Chief Rabbinate , the body that authorizes and conducts marriages in the country, should allow marriages between people of different religious faiths, Israeli Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann said Sunday. The Chief Rabbinate currently...

The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Monday, including United States v. Rodriquez , where the Court ruled that for purposes of increasing a sentence under the...

Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion ....

United States v. Ressam, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

United States v. Williams, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion [text,...

United States v. Rodriquez, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 [ruling that for purpose of increasing a sentence under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act, a conviction qualifies as a predicate serious drug offense even when the crime is made...

A Bangladeshi anti-corruption court indicted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday on charges that she received approximately $440,000 in illegal kickbacks on a power-plant deal while in office between 1996 and 2001....

The Vietnamese government Saturday deported Nguyen Quoc Quan , a US citizen sentenced for planning to distribute pro-democracy pamphlets in the communist country. He received a six-month jail term Tuesday, but was credited for time he spent awaiting...

Representatives of over 100 governments will meet Monday at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions to finalize a treaty banning the use, manufacture, and stockpiling of cluster bombs . Opponents of the...

An Afghan appeals court heard testimony Sunday from journalism student Sayad Parwaz Kambaksh , who was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender roles under Islam. Kambaksh denied the accusations in front...