The landmark Pennsylvania federal trial debating the legality of a school district's decision to teach ninth-grade biology students the theory of anti-evolutionary intelligent design drew to a close Friday. The plaintiffs, eight families in...

Oregon Circuit Judge Joseph Guimond Friday upheld the constitutionality of Measure 36 , an Oregon constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage . Judge Guimond rejected arguments that the Measure, defining marriage as "between one man and...

Lawyers for Jumah Dossari , the Bahraini Guantanamo detainee identified as having made a suicide attempt during an October 15 visit by attorney Joshua Colangelo-Bryan , asked a federal judge Friday to order a...

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A military jury Friday cleared a US Army sergeant of all charges related to his alleged abuse of a prisoner at the US-run Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan . Sgt. Duane Grubb had been charged...

The Vermont Supreme Court Friday ruled that a decision made by former state governor Howard Dean and Vermont's secretary of state to seal 93 boxes of sensitive papers collected during his term was legal. When he...

US Senators Friday confirmed their support for an anti-torture amendment sponsored by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and attached to the 2006 defense spending bill by unanimously re-passing the amendment by voice vote after approving it...

A US Senate subcommittee referred British MP George Galloway Thursday evening to the US Department of Justice for potential prosecution because the committee said they found "probable cause" that Galloway lied to Congress regarding his...

A Syrian judicial committee has begun its own investigation into the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . Syrian Attorney General Ghada Mourad , who is heading the committee, has said that Syria will...

Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock has spoken out to disagree with assertions that the government's anti-terrorism bill violates human rights. The proposed anti-terrorism legislation , which Australian Prime Minister John Howard ...