The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against the city of Philadelphia Friday for violating the rights of its Spanish-speaking voters in breach of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The complaint was...

A Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury issued a $78.47 million verdict against retailer Wal-Mart Friday, awarding damages to plaintiffs on behalf of current and former Pennsylvania employees for work during rest...

Pentagon surveillance of peace activists, American Civil Liberties Union, October 13, 2006 [documents showing that the Department of Defense labeled anti-war activities as "potential terrorist activity" and monitored students, Quakers and other anti-war groups while collecting information for a domestic...

The Maryland Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a preliminary injunction this week barring the state from discontinuing Medicaid benefits to approximately 3,000 legal immigrant recipients, all of whom migrated to...

The United Nations General Assembly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as the next UN secretary-general on Friday. Ban, a career diplomat, is set to succeed Kofi Annan when the...

Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said Friday that the US plans to release two Pakistani detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and that Pakistan expects the men to arrive in their home country by October 15....

The ruling party of Rwanda announced Friday that it had directed its lawmakers to support a forthcoming bill to abolish the death penalty . Leaders of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) voted...

The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled Friday that a British Columbia judge overstepped his sentencing power when he ordered a convicted criminal on probation for sexual assault to submit to mandatory submissions of bodily fluids for...

A proposed $78 billion merger between telecom giants BellSouth and AT&T stalled unexpectedly Friday in the Federal Communications Commission after two FCC commissioners, both Democrats, asked Chairman Kevin Martin for more time to...

Mohamed Shorbagi, the Palestinian imam of a mosque in Rome, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to a charge of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) , according to a criminal information and plea agreement...