There were indications Saturday that Iraq's constitutional committee would resolve major issues and submit a draft constitution before the Monday August 15 deadline. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told reporters that the committee had reached...

US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced in a press release late Friday that the threat level for transit systems nationwide was being lowered from Code Orange, or "high", to "elevated" Code Yellow. The threat level had been increased...

Two attorneys representing inmates at Guantanamo Bay prison told reporters Saturday that the US military has agreed to meet several demands of prisoners for better conditions at the facility, including greater access to books and bottled...

By a 4-2 margin late Friday the California Supreme Court overruled a lower court decision , and placed controversial Proposition 77 back on the November 8 special election ballot. Proponents of...

Address to the American Bar Association, Thurgood Marshall Awards Dinner Honoring Abner Mikva, John Paul Stevens Associate Justice Supreme Court of the United States, August 6, 2005 . Excerpt:Thurgood's rejection of the...

Implementation of the NPT Safegaurds Agreement in the Islamic Republican of Iran and related Board resolutions, International Atomic Energy Agency , August 11, 2005 . Read the full text of...

US v. Councilman, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, August 11, 2005 [ruling that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which updated the Wiretap Act to include electronic communications, should be broadly interpreted to allow an e-mail provider...

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Friday that he was astonished at the unanimity of a call by the International Atomic Energy Agency for Iran to stop enrichment activities, warning Western opposition that the...

JURIST is looking for talented, public-service oriented law students from law schools in the US and abroad to join our team of real-time legal news editors this fall.From Los Angeles to London, from Chicago to Cairo - if you're...

Mississippi Judge Marcus Gordon on Friday granted bail to former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen , who, in June, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 killings of three civil rights...