Following the March Supreme Court ruling that juveniles may not be sentenced to death, Texas Governor Rick Perry has commuted the sentences of 28 offenders to life in prison. They will be...

Iraqi deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi said on Thursday that the trial of Saddam Hussein will begin within 90 days, before the end of September 2005. The government had previously stated...

ABC News is reporting that ex-KKK member Edgar Ray Killen , now 80, has been sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison for manslaughter in connection with the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers. Killen...

Following the Supreme Court's early June decision that Congress can criminalize the use of marijuana with a doctor's permission , federal agents executed search warrants and made arrests on Wednesday in raids on medical marijuana providers in northern...

The Tokyo High Court overturned a 2001 Tokyo District Court ruling on Thursday that awarded compensation to the family of a Chinese man who was forcibly brought to Japan as a laborer during World War...

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday in Kelo v. New London that a local government authority can expropriate private property - land, homes and businesses - for private redevelopment that confers economic benefits on the...

US lawmakers Wednesday called on the White House to encourage expansion of human rights and religious freedoms in Vietnam as Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai continued his landmark visit to the US, the first by a...

The New York Senate on Wednesday approved a bill which would provide for over-the-counter sales of emergency contraceptives. The current law requires a physician's visit, which State Sen. Nicholas Spano (R-Westchester) , the bill's sponsor, said involves "frequent...

A report released Wednesday by the Democratic National Committee found problems during the voting process in Ohio during the November 2004 election, but also found no evidence of fraud. A large number of complaints were...

Manfred Nowak , the UN special investigator on torture, complained Thursday that the US was stalling on his request to visit detainees at Guantanamo . A US spokeswoman denied any delay, however, and put the lack...