The Nebraska Supreme Court Friday upheld a state law which requires mandatory blood testing of newborn infants. The opinion rejected an appeal brought by a fundamental Christian couple, Josue and Mary Anaya. The Anayas argued...

Lawyers for Yahoo! Inc. have appeared before the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals seeking legal protection for US Internet portals displaying content which is illegal in foreign countries, but is domestically protected by the First Amendment...

Former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker will co-chair the newly-formed Commission on Federal Election Reform , a private, bipartisan panel whose members include former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, former House Minority...

Washington's Supreme Court has ruled that a businessman cannot sue a TV reporter for defamation simply for omitting facts from a news report that could have made the plaintiff look better. KXLY-TV in Spokane, Washington ran a...

The UK parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee released its annual report on human rights Friday, accusing the US of committing "grave violations of human rights" against prisoners in Guantanamo Bay , Afghanistan and Iraq. The committee...

AP is reporting that Terri Schiavo's parents have now filed arguments in their appeal of this morning's federal district court denial of their second emergency request to reconnect their daughter's feeding tube. In court papers they have...

Results of a French poll to be published in Saturday's Marianne magazine show that 55% of French voters intend to vote against approving the European constitution . This is the third survey in recent...

In Friday's international brief, Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro told a press conference Thursday that despite a harshly worded 'letter to the people' released by South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun Wednesday, Japan would...

President Bush signed SB 384 into law Friday, extending the existence of the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group by two years, through March 27, 2007. The panel was established...

A French court Friday ordered former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ridouane Khalid jailed, and former Gitmo detainee Khaled ben Mustafa, who was already in custody, to remain behind bars. Both men were detained at the US military...