The New York State Court of Appeals upheld on Thursday a lower court ruling that the state's ban on cameras in trial courtrooms is constitutional. The appeals court ruled that the legislature has the final say...

Lodi (CA) father and son indictment for making false statements to the FBI in connection with terrorist matters, US Department of Justice, June 16, 2005 [indicting a father and son for allegedly lying to the FBI about the son attending...

Orbanski v. the Queen, Supreme Court of Canada, June 16, 2005 [ruling that police at roadside DUI checkpoints do not have to inform suspects of their right to legal counsel before asking them whether or not they had been drinking...

Supreme Court's Image Declines as Nomination Battle Looms, Pew Research Center, June 16, 2005 . Excerpt:With an aging Supreme Court possibly facing...

American Interests and UN Reform, US Task Force on the United Nations, June 16, 2005 . Excerpt:Just as the United States...

Burundi on Wednesday approved a United Nations plan to establish a truth and reconciliation commission with a special war crimes chamber to investigate decades of bloody conflict between local Hutus and Tutsis going back to the country's independence in...

A senior Chinese government official said Thursday that China is drafting a new anti-terrorism law . Zhao Yongchen, deputy director of the counterterrorism bureau of the Ministry of Public Security , said the top terrorist...

AFP is reporting that Sunni leaders have announced a compromise with their Shiite and Krd colleagues on Sunni representation on the parliamentary committee charged with drafting Iraq's new permanent constitution. Under the compromise, the Sunnis will get 15 new...

The NAACP , the largest civil rights organization in the United States, has picked Bruce Gordon, formerly an executive with Verizon , to succeed Kweisi Mfume as its leader. An official announcement is expected...

Judge Salem Mahmud Haj Ali was shot to death on Thursday in Mosul along with his driver. He was in charge of a court division in the northern Iraqi city, and is the third judge to be killed [Reuters...