The Center for Constitutional Rights asked a federal judge Thursday to strike down the Protect America Act 2007 as unconstitutional. The new law, signed by US President George W. Bush Sunday, gives...

Canadian intelligence officials suspected that the United States would deport detained Canadian citizen Maher Arar to a country where he could have been subject to torture, according to previously censored information released Thursday by Canada's...

Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, said Thursday that five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were tortured during their eight years in Libyan custody on suspicion of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the...

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion Wednesday with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court asking the court to "disclose recent legal opinions discussing the scope of the government's authority to engage in...

A federal judge Monday overturned a $1.52 billion jury decision against Microsoft awarded after the jury found that Microsoft violated two digital music patents held by Alcatel-Lucent . The patents govern technology that...

The US House of Representatives voted 227-183 late Saturday in favor of the Protect America Act 2007 , legislation that gives the Executive Branch expanded surveillance authority for a period of six months while Congress...

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts was taken to the hospital Monday after suffering a fall. Supreme Court spokesperson Kathy Arberg said Monday that Roberts fell at his vacation home in Maine...

JURIST experienced a major disk failure on our Pittsburgh server Friday morning, pulling us offline. We are currently working to restore all files and will resume regular publication as soon as possible. Some services and pages may be temporarily...

The Iraqi government has shown sufficient progress in its efforts to develop a constitutional review process, but is not making satisfactory progress in passing laws on the distribution of oil revenues and de-Baathification reform, according to the Initial Benchmark...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has rejected a lawsuit challenging the government's domestic surveillance program , ruling Friday that the lawsuit should be dismissed because the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring...