China's National People's Congress voted Tuesday to amend the Organic Law on the People's Courts so that only the Supreme People's Court has the authority to approve the death penalty . The...

A federal jury Monday returned a $48 million verdict against Amerigroup and its Illinois affiliate for discriminating against pregnant women by intentionally not reaching out to them while marketing its insurance services in Illinois. The lawsuit was...

Advocacy groups filed a second lawsuit Monday against the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania in an attempt to block the community's anti-immigration laws that will make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to reside or work in the...

Failure to Protect: A Call to the UN Security Council to Act in North Korea, US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, October 30, 2006 [claiming that the North Korean government is "actively committing crimes against humanity" by the...

Planned Parenthood v. Rounds, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, October 30, 2006 . Read the full text...

A US Navy spokesman said Monday that an Article 32 hearing scheduled for Tuesday in the case of Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, a staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps accused of leaking detainee names...

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud voiced objections to a draft document governing the special tribunal to be tasked with trying suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri ...

US special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald argued in court papers filed Monday with the US District Court for the District of Columbia that he should not be required to explain to jurors in the case...

A Beijing court has denied an appeal hearing for Ching Cheong , who was convicted in August on charges of spying for Taiwan. Ching, the chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times , was sentenced...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin promised Monday to extend the scope of anti-vandalism laws following the burnings of some 200 vehicles over the weekend. After an emergency meeting on transportation security,...