The US Justice Department told Congress Tuesday that it supported renewal of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act , preventing states with a history of discriminatory voting practices from implementing any change affecting voting...

Report Concerning the Testimony of George Galloway before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Majority Staff, US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Investigations, October 25, 2005 [saying that Galloway profited from the now defunct UN Oil-for-Food...

A recent Federal Communications Commission ruling that would allow wiretapping of Internet calls was challenged Tuesday by privacy and technology groups in federal appeals court in Washington. The ruling makes it easier for...

Documents regarding autopsies on deceased US-held detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, released to the public by the ACLU on October 24, 2005 pursuant to a FOIA request [indicating that at least 21 detainees have been killed while being held in...

Egyptian police Tuesday clashed with relatives of political prisoners demonstrating outside the country's Interior Ministry. The protesters called for the immediate release of the detainees, mostly Islamists and suspected members of the Gamaa Islamiya and Jihad [Wikipedia...

A Guantanamo detainee on hunger strike has asked for a motion ordering his feeding tube to be removed so that he can starve to death, his lawyers said Tuesday. Kuwaiti Fawzi al-Odah , 28,...

A group of former international political leaders supporting the defense of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein called Tuesday for a UN investigation into last week's kidnapping and murder of Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi , a lawyer...

US Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NB) introduced a package of four bills on US immigration policy Tuesday that depart from Bush administration policy. Hagel, a possible contender for the Republican nomination in the...

Britain's House of Lords on Tuesday substantially amended the Blair government's controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill . The bill outlawing incitement to religious hatred was originally proposed last year , and Prime Minister...

In Tuesday's environmental law news, Judge Katherine Hayden of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled Monday that the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway could continue to operate five waste...