A Russian military court convicted four army soldiers in the January 2002 killing of six Chechen civilians Thursday, sentencing them to between 14 and 9 years in prison. The four defendants, three of which remain fugitives and...

A top US Justice Department official testified Thursday that the Bush Administration remains opposed to a proposed shield law that would protect media from federal pressure to reveal sources. Assistant Attorney General Rachel Brand testified...

US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NE) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said in a joint statement Thursday that senators will return to the stalled Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 [S 1348 summary;...

Amnesty International accused the government of Canada of having "abandoned" its citizen in Guantanamo Bay in an open letter Thursday to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The letter urged Harper to press the US...

Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday voted against allowing a statewide vote on a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. A total of 50 votes were needed to advance the amendment, but...

US Department of Justice (DOJ) civil rights investigations in the Bush administration have focused on issues of religious freedom and discrimination at the expense of race, the New York Times reported Thursday. As an extreme instance, the...

Permanent Mission v. New York, NY, US Supreme Court, June 14, 2007 . Read the Court's opinion per Justice Thomas,...

Davenport v. Washington Education Association and Washington v. Washington Education Association, US Supreme Court, June 14, 2007 [holding that states do not violate the First Amendment by requiring labor unions to obtain affirmative authorization from non-union workers before using their...

President George W. Bush told the Legislative Conference of the Associated Builders and Contractors Thursday that he supports an immigration bill amendment to provide $4.4 billion in immediate additional funding for border security , obtained through...

The Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2007, Council on American-Islamic Relations, June 14, 2007 . Read the full text of the...