A ten-day old California law barring the sale of violent video games to minors is being challenged by trade groups associated with the entertainment industry. The Entertainment Software Association and the Video Software Dealers Association ...

US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers Tuesday submitted her responses to written questions posed by the Senate Judiciary Committee , revealing past support for a constitutional amendment banning abortions except when necessary to...

The Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index released Tuesday shows more than two-thirds of the 159 countries surveyed scored less than 5 on a scale of zero to ten, indicating serious levels of corruption. The index...

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan filed the largest criminal tax case ever Monday against 19 defendants formerly employed by accounting firm KPMG . The revised indictment replaces an indictment filed against 9 defendants in August...

Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler presented a nine-member advisory committee Monday with the names of six potential candidates for the Supreme Court of Canada . Unlike the US system where...

Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari complained to reporters Monday about the delay in bringing Saddam Hussein to trial, but denied trying to encourage the Iraqi Special Tribunal JURIST [official website; news...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has called on the government of Burundi to recognize more than 3,000 Rwandan refugees as asylum seekers, allowing them to stay in the country. Since March, nearly 8,000 Rwandans,...

The Israeli Supreme Court has authorized the construction of the West Bank security fence across Palestinian land. Last month, the Court ruled that Israel had a right to construct the barrier to...

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour Monday signed legislation to let the 13 hotel-casinos destroyed by Hurricane Katrina to be rebuilt 800 feet inland, despite opposition from religious conservatives. The law was approved in a special legislative...

Officials from the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq resumed counting ballots Tuesday as part of an effort to recheck an unusually high number of votes in this weekend's referendum on the Iraqi constitution [JURIST news...