New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber on Monday filed a court petition on behalf of 16 states seeking to reactivate a lawsuit filed last year against the Environmental Protection Agency . The...

Russian President Vladimir Putin nominated Justice Minister Yury Chaika on Monday to be the country's new prosecutor-general . Leaders of the Federation Council , the upper house of parliament, said they...

The Kurdistan Islamic Group and Kurdistan Islamic Union , both major Sunni political parties in Iraq, announced plans to campaign against a draft regional constitution for Kurdistan that does not draw its "principal source of legislation" from...

The US Supreme Court on Monday announced it would hear a second case challenging the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 . The court granted certiorari in Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood...

The American Civil Liberties Union confirmed Monday that a lawyer working for the New York attorney general's office informally warned the ACLU executive committee not to adopt proposed standards limiting ACLU board members from publicly...

Faheem Khalid Lodhi, a Pakistani-born Australian immigrant, was convicted Monday of plotting a terrorist attack in Australia, marking one of the first convictions under new Australian anti-terrorism laws passed in the wake of 9/11....

Italian prosecutors investigating the death of intelligence agent Nicola Calipari have requested the indictment of US Army Specialist Mario Lozano . Investigators concluded their probe last week , after...

The US Supreme Court handed down three decisions in argued cases Monday, including a ruling in the consolidated cases of Rapanos v. US and Carabell v. Army Corps of Engineers [Duke Law case backgrounder;...

The trial of three Egyptian journalists and one lawyer accused of slandering a local election commission chief by alleging fraud in Egypt's November parliamentary election and publishing the names of two judges accused of rigging results in...

The UN Human Rights Council held its inaugural session Monday, convening for its first session as the replacement body for the beleaguered Human Rights Commission . The Human...