An Act Reinstating Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth, filed with the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives, April 29, 2005 [to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts for deadly acts of terrorism, killing sprees, murders involving torture, and the killing...

The US Trade Representative on Friday said the office had placed China on a "priority watch list" due to what the US considers rampant copyright infringement in the country. China was at the center of the US...

House Republicans on Friday said they planned to finish drafting social security reform legislation by June, a day after President Bush in a prime-time press conference challenged legislators to move forward on the issue. House Ways and Means...

AP is reporting that the US and Italy have issued a joint statement that they have failed to agree on the circumstances surrounding the shooting of an Italian agent by US soldiers in Iraq. Italy had indicated earlier [AP...

Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan and Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed on Friday to end decades of hostility and to work to avoid dangerous tensions in the Taiwan Strait during a historic meeting in...

Following up on a story reported Thursday on JURIST, prominent Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi was named deputy prime minister and acting oil ministry chief in the Cabinet approved Wednesday by the interim national assembly...

MA Gov. Mitt Romney filed a bill Thursday to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts for deadly acts of terrorism, killing sprees, murders involving torture, and the killing of law enforcement authorities. Romney's bill uses ten recommendations...

Wiretaps increased by 19 percent last year, with federal and state judges approving 1,710 applications while denying none, the Administrative Office of the US Courts reported Thursday. New York, California, New Jersey and Florida accounted for three...

The Florida Supreme Court , in a 4-3 decision, on Thursday rejected Rush Limbaugh's appeal to review a lower court's decision that the state could seize his medical records. The court will not consider a motion...

The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday sentenced Mika Muhimana, who was a councilor in the western Rwandan province of Kibuyea, to prison for the rest of his life for his...