At least 12 people were killed Friday when thousands of people took to the streets of the eastern Uzebekistan city of Andijan to protest the highly publicized and controversial trial for extremism of 23 Muslim businessmen. Over 2,000 government...

Recently-demoted {JURIST report] Abu Ghraib commander Colonel Janis Karpinski , formerly a reserve Brigadier General, says that she is being discriminated against and that evidence exists that top ranking officials should be held responsible for the Abu Ghraib...

Recent UN Security Council resolutions setting up sanctions against Sudan and referring criminal actions in Darfur to the International Criminal Court have led to protests and heightened tensions in Darfur, according to UN Assistant Secretary-General...

Mexico has announced plans to oppose recent measures under the Real ID Act signed into law Wednesday as part of an appropriations package making it harder for immigrants to get state IDs and drivers...

The Arizona State Legislature voted Thursday to approve a new bill tightening immigration laws in the state for the thousands of illegal immigrants who enter the state from Mexico annually. The bill restricts benefits...

A subcommittee of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce has released new documents that could implicate French and Russian officials in the scandal involving the UN Oil-for-Food program. The documents suggest...

Connecticut serial killer Michael Ross was executed by lethal injection early Friday morning in New England's first execution in 45 years, made possible after the state Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that he was competent to...

Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning, United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, Judge Joseph F. Bataillon, May 12, 2005. Excerpt:The reach of Section 29 is at once too broad and too narrow to satisfy its purported purpose...

Report On Oil Allocations Granted To Charles Pasqua & George Galloway, Staff Report, US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, May 12, 2005. Excerpt:This Report presents the evidence gathered by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee...

Federal officials with the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement , part of the US Department of Homeland Security, announced Thursday that a federal grand jury had indicted two Washington DC law firms, two associated lawyers and...