Republicans in Congress will look to give final approval to an extension of the Patriot Act powers next week, but criticism from both parties may lead to a filibuster or even defeat of the measure in...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that Poland housed the main CIA secret detention facility in Europe, with approximately 100 detainees. The accusations, published in the Polish daily, Gazeta Wyborcza , are...

New Orleans Police Chief Warren Riley said Thursday that the city has fired 60 police officers and suspended 25 more for failing to show up for duty during Hurricane Katrina . Riley, who was sworn...

A New York appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that would have allowed a same-sex marriage in New York City. Earlier this year, New York City Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan had ruled [PDF...

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Thursday that he has started a formal inquiry into the Justice Department's handling of the Jose Padilla case. Padilla, a US citizen,...

Opposition activists and human rights groups have condemned the restrictive amendments to Belarus' Criminal Code that were passed unanimously by the country's upper house of parliament. The Organization for Security and...

The trial of the five main suspects in the failed July 21 London bombings will begin in September 2006. The five Londoners, Hussein Osman, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Omar, and Ramzi Mohamed,...

USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, Conference Report, US House Judiciary Committee, December 8, 2005. Read the full text of the report , and review a section-by-section summary . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday defended contentious statements made by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on US terrorist rendition practices , saying through a spokesperson that she has...

Signatory nations to the Kyoto Protocol meeting at the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal Thursday agreed to a final protocol provision governing the rules for ensuring compliance with emissions standards. A country...