The Australian Senate on Monday approved legislation that would allow same-sex couples to enjoy most of the same rights as heterosexual couples, but would not give same-sex couples the right to marry. The...
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) may have withheld information from the US Department of Justice and other agencies regarding a plane carrying a US missionary family shot down over Peru in 2001, according to excerpts ...
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed Thursday evening during a speech to the Federalist Society . Mukasey was rushed to George Washington University Hospital , where he remained Friday morning [New York...
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced Thursday that they will lift restrictions on former Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . The announcement came after Hicks issued a plea...
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday formally asked ICC judges to issue arrest warrants for the leaders of rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur region [JURIST news...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerian Guantanamo Bay detainees. In the first ruling on detainees' rights since the...
Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez on Friday vetoed legislation that would have partially decriminalized abortion in the country. The bill was passed by Uruguay's Senate [official website,...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Pleasant Grove City, UT v. Summum , the Court considered whether privately donated monuments...
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Wednesday in Winter v. National Resources Defense Council that the US Navy may continue using sonar as part of military training...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in three cases. In Chambers v. United States , the Court will consider whether failure to report to...