The US Senate voted 65-32 Tuesday to limit debate on the nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the federal appeals bench, against some opposition from Democrats, some of whom have...

A Spanish court official said Tuesday that a Spanish judge wants to question three US soldiers in connection with the 2003 killing of Spanish cameraman Jose Couso in Iraq when a US tank fired on a Baghdad hotel housing...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview Tuesday with the Financial Times that Britain will attempt to salvage some key components from the nearly-defunct EU Constitution. UK Secretary of State for Foreign and...

A Libyan court announced Tuesday that nine police officers and one doctor have been acquitted of torturing five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who were allegedly forced to confess to deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV. The six...

The Santiago Appeals Court, the intermediate appellate jurisdiction in Chile, stripped former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet of immunity Tuesday so he can face charges of tax fraud in connection with as much as $17 million...

A Jordanian appeals court has overturned the conviction of a Jordanian man for financing al Qaeda-linked terrorist Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi in an opinion obtained by the Associated Press Tuesday. According to the Court of Cassation [Jordian Judicial Branch...

A three-judge panel of the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld two Florida laws that require sex offenders to register with the state and submit a DNA sample after release from prison. A group...

Closing arguments began Tuesday in a US government lawsuit filed against tobacco companies over five years ago. The suit went to trial eight months ago and is expected to wrap up this week. Federal prosecutors filed suit ...

Washington state GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi announced late Monday that he would not appeal the ruling of a Washington state judge upholding the heavily disputed 2004 gubernatorial election of Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire [official...

Speaking at a UN press conference Monday Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said that the US Senate would confirm John Bolton as the new US ambassador to the UN by the "tiniest" of margins. Bolton,...