AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has upheld Oregon's Death with Dignity Act , rejecting federal efforts to prevent doctors from assisting patients in taking their own lives. In 2001, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft...

Lawyers for a group of Chinese Uighur detainees being held by the US at Guantanamo Bay plan to ask the US Supreme Court to hear an appeal of last month's District Court ruling authorizing their continued detention....

Voters in Chile elected Michelle Bachelet as president with 56 percent of the vote in a runoff election Sunday. Bachelet and her parents were imprisoned and tortured in 1973 under the regime...

California executed 76-year old Clarence Ray Allen Tuesday morning, despite protests that executing the ailing inmate was cruel and unusual punishment. Allen, who was blind, nearly deaf and confined to a wheelchair, was California's oldest death...

In the months following Sept. 11, the National Security Agency provided a "flood" of surveillance information to the FBI, most of which proved to be worthless and a waste of FBI resources, and which...

Restoring the Rule of Law, former Vice-President Al Gore, January 16, 2006 . Excerpt:A president who...

Senate leaders announced late Monday that a US Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito which could have taken place as early as Tuesday will be postponed by...

In a scathing and fiery speech in Washington Monday on eavesdropping and excesses of executive power, former Vice-President and 2000 Democratic Party nominee Al Gore declared that the US Constitution was in "grave danger" and...

A Bangladesh court Monday sentenced a member of the outlawed Islamist militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen to 15 years in prison for involvement in a wave of bomb attacks across the country on August 17 last year that killed...

Human rights groups Monday voiced objections to Sudan President Omar al-Bashir becoming the rotating chair of the African Union for 2006-2007 when African nations hold a summit in Khartoum next week. In a letter to...