The US Department of Justice has opened an internal investigation into its role in the domestic surveillance program approved by President Bush, Rep. Maurice Hinchey said Wednesday. Counsel for DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility [official...

Congressional Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation that would roll back some of the limited liability provisions for vaccine and drug manufacturers in times of public health or bioterror emergency. A group of 21 US Senate and House Democrats led...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has been petitioned to force the country's government to bring an action in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against countries where cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad ...

Hassan Bubacar Jallow , lead prosecutor for the UN-affiliated International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) asked Wednesday that the Tribunal transfer the case of former Rwanda official Michel Bagaragaza to Norway. Bagaragaza, who...

Indonesia on Wednesday defended death sentences handed down earlier this week against two Australians convicted for attempting to smuggle narcotics out of the country. An Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman said the sentences were...

Reversing a stance taken in previous years, Idaho state senators Wednesday voted to put on the November ballot a constitutional amendment that would establish one man and one woman marriages as the "only domestic legal union that...

Lawyers for the US Department of Justice have told the US Supreme Court that inmates held at Guantanamo Bay cannot challenge their detention by relying on the US Constitution because "the Constitution does not...

Leading Wednesday's environmental law news, the Washington State Senate has approved a measure that would allow the state to provide more water from the Columbia River basin for agriculture while protecting fish by ensuring water...

Several members of the US House of Representatives Wednesday sharply criticized US internet companies for complying with the Chinese government's censorship requests at a Human Rights subcommittee hearing . The hearing was called after Microsoft ,...

US Sen. Russell Feingold has begun one more perhaps-quixotic filibuster against renewal of the USA Patriot Act , claiming that new versions of key provisions offer only modest protection for civil liberties [floor statement transcript;...