US Senate Judiciary Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on Wednesday took the unusual step of sending Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a letter listing 12 written questions that Leahy hopes Gonzales...

A warrant signed Wednesday by Florida Governor Charlie Crist ended the state's temporary suspension on executions. The ban was instituted last December by then-Governor Jeb Bush after the botched execution of Angel Diaz ,...

A military jury sitting at Camp Pendleton, California, Wednesday convicted US Marine Cpl. Trent Thomas for his role in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania . Thomas was...

Thailand's 2007 Crimes Act became effective Wednesday, granting authority to Thai police to confiscate and search private computers. The law is reportedly aimed at reining in Internet pornography and libel, with some violations that...

The Spanish Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that former Argentine naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo can properly be tried in Spain for crimes against humanity. The decision comes after months of jurisdictional disputes. Last December, the Spanish High...

The office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday denied UN immunity from prosecution to a UN human rights investigator in Bangladesh who is charged with corruption. UN Special Rapporteur Sigma Huda ...

Western nations said Wednesday they would continue working to free five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were sentenced to life in prison in Libya after being accused of infecting...

Thailand's interim-government lifted a ban on the registration of new political parties Wednesday, after the military-appointed National Legislative Assembly (NLA) approved legislation formally ending the ban instituted by the military after its September 2006 coup...

The UK Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday formally rejected any possible proposal to try Andrei Lugovoy for the poisoning-murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in a foreign court or...

The Michigan Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a voter ID law in that state, ruling against critics who argued that the ID requirement is essentially a poll tax. The 5-2 decision was split down party lines,...