US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thursday reaffirmed the US commitment to ending what she called the "genocide" in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, telling members of the House International Relations Committee that "the...
Residents of Weare, New Hampshire , the town where Justice David Souter of the US Supreme Court owns a farmhouse, rejected a proposal to evict Souter in a town meeting...
Muslim Syrians set fire to both the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Damascus Saturday, protesting the European publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad and caricaturing him as a terrorist. Protestors first stormed the Danish embassy chanting "God is...
Coretta Scott King, widow of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. and herself a respected civil rights leader, was honored Saturday at the Georgia Capitol . Capitol police estimate that as many as 10,000 people passed...
Canadian Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said Friday in response to suggestions that the Canadian Parliament should be given a more active role in the high court appointment process that it should remain the same. McLachlin...
The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday temporarily stopped Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline from accessing private abortion clinic records until a lower court determines whether Kline actually has a right to see the...
US District Judge Marcia Cooke said Friday that Jose Padilla should not wear handcuffs and ankle chains during court appearances unless US government officials can show that Padilla poses an immediate safety threat. Cooke also ordered...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) , the judicial arm of the United Nations, ruled Friday that it does not have jurisdiction over a case filed by the Democratic Republic of Congo against Rwanda...
French immigration officials have deported a man from Mali involved in the riots that overtook Parisian suburbs and spread across the country last fall, the first of seven foreigners so far found guilty in connection with the...
A US court-martial Saturday found Army Specialist James Hayes guilty of mistreating detainees in Afghanistan at the end of a brief trial . The court-martial which convicted Hayes on one count of conspiracy...