A federal judge has rejected constitutional challenges to civilian charges against former US Army Pvt. Steven D. Green in connection with the rape and killing of a 14-year-old girl and the killing of her family in...
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A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday ordered the federal government to release eight more grand jury transcripts from the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg espionage case [trial transcript,...
The Pakistani government reinstated eight judges in the Sindh High Court in Karachi on Wednesday. The judges had previously refused to take office until the reinstatement of all 60 judges dismissed last year by former...
The North Atlantic Council (NAC) , made up of representatives from 26 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member nations, urged Russia to reverse its recognition of the independence of two Georgian territories [AP...
US District Judge Joseph Tauro held Friday that a Massachusetts statute establishing a 35-foot buffer zone outside facilities which perform abortions does not violate protesters' constitutional rights. Tauro found that the...
Swiss Prosecutor General Daniel Zappelli announced on Monday that he will not pursue money-laundering charges against Pakistani presidential candidate Asif Ali Zardari , who is the widower of the assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC obituary;...
The US will begin providing direct financial aid to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) once the genocide tribunal takes adequate measures against corruption, stated outgoing US Ambassador Joseph Mussomeli [official...
Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels has certified a ballot measure which could prohibit gays, lesbians and other unmarried cohabiting couples from becoming either foster or adoptive parents. Daniels announced ...
The Texas Third Court of Appeals has allowed money-laundering indictments to stand against two alleged co-conspirators of former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) , rejecting their argument that the state laws used to...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a Bush administration plan to protect salmon and steelhead near hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin violated the Endangered Species...
