Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the Jessica Lunsford Act on Monday, a bill designed to impose tougher punishment on child sex abusers. The bill was drafted in March after the body of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford...

The US Supreme Court Monday ordered the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to reconsider a girls' sports case. The Sixth Circuit had ruled on equal protection grounds in Michigan High School Athletic Association...

Israeli Minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky resigned Monday saying that Israel's upcoming withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is a mistake that will spawn more Palestinian violence. Sharansky has insisted that Israeli concessions must be matched...

AP is reporting that, as anticipated , Pfc. Lynndie England has pleaded guilty to charges relating to her role in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. She becomes the seventh low-level guard to plead guilty for maltreatment of...

US Army AR15-6 investigative report regarding the March 4 incident at a traffic control point in Baghdad resulting in the death of one Italian and the wounding of two others, released April 30, 2005 [concluding that the death of agent...

The Navajo Nation president Sunday veteod a proposal that would have banned same-sex marriages on the tribal reservation. The measure setting various restrictions on marriage, including a same-sex marriage ban, was unanimously approved last month by the...

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Insitutional Rights, 04-1152, considering whether universities may ban military recruiters from their campuses without having federal funding withdrawn under...

The 2005 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference opened Monday in New York, with almost 190 nations gathering to review progress under the 1970 treaty . The conference comes as nuclear tensions with North Korea [JURIST news...

Guatemala will create a security unit to offer increase protection for 19 judges and six magistrates who have received death threats, according to a plan approved by the country's supreme court on Friday. The court announced the plan at...

UN peacekeepers sexually abused Liberian women, according to an initial UN investigation announced on Friday. An initial investigation into allegations showed that as many as 20 reports of abuse could be substantiated, with the allegations ranging from peacekeepers having...