During the final day of defense arguments in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui , Moussaoui's defense lawyers submitted to the jury a government-approved statement that the government had no evidence that "shoe-bomber" Richard Reid...

Leading Thursday's environmental law news, Louisville, Kentucky Mayor Jerry Abramson directed an advisory group to review and recommend changes to the area's air pollution program. The Strategic Toxic Air Reduction program was enacted in 2005...

US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday selected James Duff , a former aide to Chief Justice Rehnquist, as the next director of the Administrative Office of the...

Spanish lawmakers have drafted legislation that will provide financial compensation to the victims of terrorist attacks on Spanish soil, as well as funding for programs to assist victims with finding new jobs and homes. The bill is expected to...

A lawsuit filed by the Russian Justice Ministry's Federal Registration Service against the Union of Soldiers' Mothers Committees , a local NGO representing the rights of soldiers, was dropped Wednesday after the group publicized...

Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, and Ohio have joined California and New Jersey in suing tobacco companies for money they say is owed under the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) . The Illinois attorney general says the state is...

China responded Thursday to criticism from the British Transplantation Society , which accused the country of harvesting and selling the organs of executed Chinese prisoners, by saying that similar practices had been used on patients...

The National Security Archive , a research institute at George Washington University, won partial summary judgment on Wednesday in its lawsuit against the US Air Force, as the US District Court for the District of Columbia...

Afghanistan's peace and reconciliation commission Thursday praised the release of a list of detainees held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay , which was made available as the result of a...

A panel from the US House Committee on International Relations sharply criticized China's human rights record on Wednesday, ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's Thursday visit to the White House . At a...