South Dakota governor Mike Rounds Thursday signed four bills restricting abortion in the state, further tightening what some consider the nation's toughest laws on abortion . One of the bills requires that doctors inform pregnant women...

US District Judge Patricia Seitz gave her conditional approval Thursday to the proposed $25.5 million settlement between Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust and the US government over a train seized by the US Army in 1945 that...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a written statement Thursday demanding that Syria withdraw all troops from Lebanon prior to that country’s April and May parliamentary elections in order to ensure that the elections are free, fair, and conducted...

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) threatened to remove itself from Guantanamo Bay interrogations due to the abuse of detainees in late 2002, forcing the Pentagon to review interrogation techniques approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [official...

The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would block the withholding of food and water from patients in a persistent vegetative state when the patient did not leave specific instructions refusing artificial...

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, Martha Stewart was back in court today to press her appeal to have her conviction overturned. Stewart attorney Walter Dellinger argued her...

Former Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland Thursday asked federal Judge Peter C. Dorsey for leniency when sentencing him on a federal corruptions. Rowland is charged with trading political access for trips to Las Vegas, Vermont, and repairs...

Reuters is reporting that US authorities have indicted an ex-employee of Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root for defrauding the government of $3.5 million.2:32 PM ET - An Illinois grand jury has laid charges against former KBR...

China Thursday announced a political prisoner's release in an apparent exchange for the US dropping its pursuit of a UN censure of China's rights record. Rebiya Kadeer was released Thursday...

Afghanistan parliamentary elections originally slated for May will be held in September, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday. Karzai's announcement only confirmed the delay, which had been anticipated by observers for some...