The Washington State Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a judge's ruling that a recall petition against Spokane Mayor Jim West can proceed. Shannon Sullivan filed the petition in May, alleging that West used his elected...

US soldier Glendale Wells was sentenced Wednesday to two months in prison by a military court for his role in abusing an Afghan detainee known as Dilawar , who died in December 2002 at Bagram Control Point [Global...

Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press :PREAMBLECHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLESCHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTSPART TWO: FREEDOMSCHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIESPART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITYPART TWO:...

Means v. Navajo Nation, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 24, 2005 ....

An anonymous Western diplomat told AFP Wednesday that the United States is lobbying for Iran to go before the UN Security Council if it does not comply with a September 3 deadline to stop the nuclear fuel...

Roy v. Secretary for Justice, Hong Kong High Court, Judge Michael Hartmann, August 24, 2005 . Read the full text...

A Kenyan judge Wednesday called for medical examinations of six suspects who allege they were tortured by police in the murder investigation of Roman Catholic Bishop Luigi Locati , who was shot to death in July. The men...

Leading Wednesday's states brief, a New Jersey court of appeals ruled today that out-of-state companies with no physical presence in the state may be taxed on sales of their goods. State Treasurer John McCormac...

A US federal judge has ruled that there is enough evidence for families of the 17 sailors who died in the 2000 terror attack in Yemen on the USS Cole to...

Former Abu Ghraib commander Janis Karpinski has alleged that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally signed a memorandum authorizing extreme interrogation techniques used at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . In an interview ...