French judge Jean-Claude Kross Wednesday postponed a verdict in the trial of six former Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of attending combat training at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan , saying the...

US State Department officials testified Wednesday that the number of refugees admitted to the US has fallen by 23 percent as a result of provisions in the USA Patriot Act...

A writer of the draft constitution for Thailand confirmed Thursday that the country's military rulers, who seized control in a bloodless coup on September 19, will have a continued role in the...

A federal judge Wednesday set a 2009 trial date for the lawsuit by computer chip-maker Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) against arch-rival Intel after ruling Tuesday that AMD...

The heirs of slaves, who filed federal lawsuits against companies that allegedly profited from slavery before the abolition of the practice in the United States, argued Wednesday in front of the US Seventh Circuit Court of...

Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, California State Assembly, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, September 27, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill. Reported in...

State of Connecticut et al. v. Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, September 27, 2006 [dismissing three of four counts of a lawsuit filed by the state of Connecticut against the US...

An Act of Vengeance, B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, September 27, 2006 [concluding that the June 28 bombing by Israeli forces of a power plant in the Gaza Strip amounts to a war...

The Prosecutor v. Momcilo Krajisnik, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, September 27, 2006 [convicting a former member of the Bosnian Serb leadership of persecutions, extermination, murder, deportation and forced transfer of non-Serb civilians during the conflict in Bosnia...

US District Judge Mark Kravitz Wednesday dismissed three of four counts of a lawsuit filed by the state of Connecticut against the US Department of Education claiming that provisions of the federal No Child...