The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday approved by a 23-12 vote a bill that would ban all abortions, excluding only those necessary to save a woman's life. A similar bill has already passed...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been named among possible target for UN Security Council sanctions being considered against high-ranking officials in the Sudanese government that are thought to be complicit in...

Belarus newspaper Zgoda has been criminally charged for reprinting cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad that have sparked violent protests across the Muslim world. The Belarus State Security Committee , still known as...

The Spanish National Court (Audiencia Nacional) has taken jurisdiction over a case investigating Guatemalan officers accused of genocide and torture during the civil unrest from 1978 to 1986. The allegations were made 1999 by Guatemalan Nobel...

Perfect 10 v. Google, United States District Court, Central District of California, February 22, 2006 [finding that search engine Google violated Perfect 10's copyrights by displaying small "thumbnail" versions of digital images that were stolen from Perfect 10's website and...

Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in US Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, Human Rights First, February 22, 2006 [reporting that at least 98 prisoners have died in US custody as a result of detainment or interrogation, with 34 being reported as...

The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) released a report on Wednesday that criticizes the new federal bankruptcy law enacted in October 2005, saying the new law does little to...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has rejected a 7-year-old ban in New Jersey on the use of local roads by large rigs travelling interstate because it...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Holmes v. South Carolina , a case in which it will decide whether state courts can preclude defendants from presenting...

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced Wednesday that one of the five NTP patents that a court found was infringed upon by Research In Motion's (RIM) , manufacturer of the BlackBerry wireless...