The European Commission on Wednesday granted Turkey the sought-after "functioning market economy" status in its bid to join the EU, but it warned the government that a stronger stance on torture and human rights...

In Wednesday's environmental law news, the US House of Representatives voted late Wednesday night to remove provisions from a budget bill that would have allowed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and offshore drilling...

Decree announcing a state of emergency in France and the application of the 1955 emergency laws, President Jacques Chirac, November 9, 2005. Read the full text of the decree and the 1955 laws (as amended) in French. Reported in JURIST's...

Legislators on a US House and Senate conference committee for the USA Patriot Act and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005 are closing on a deal that would limit certain law enforcement powers under the Act in...

US lawmakers Wednesday expressed some discomfort with a proposal by the Bush administration to increase the response role of the US Department of Defense in disasters during a hearing of a House Armed Services Committee...

Judith Miller , the New York Times reporter at the center of the CIA leak case , has left the newspaper after 28 years there, the Times announced Wednesday . Miller negotiated...

Doctors directed to examine former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet have declared him fit to stand trial for the first time on charges that he coordinated the killings of political opponents during the 1970s....

The Pentagon has said it will not seek the death penalty against Omar Ahmed Khadr , an 18-year-old Canadian citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay who admitted throwing a grenade that killed...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in US v. Georgia and Goodman v. Georgia , a consolidated case in which it will decide whether states can be...

Egyptian judges have raised questions about the accuracy of the final results in September's presidential election, although they said that any irregularities did not affect the outcome of the race. An informal association of judges in Egypt [JURIST news...