United States v. Barot, et al., Southern District of New York, April 12, 2005 . Read the full text of the indictment here. Reported in...

Following up on a story reported on JURIST's Paper Chase earlier today, Canadian parliamentarians late Tuesday afternoon turned back an opposition amendment to government-proposed same-sex marriage legislation that would have limited marriage to union between a man and a...

The top religious official in Saudi Arabia has banned the practice of allowing parents to force women to marry. Sheik Abdul-Aziz al-Sheik said in a statement that coercion to marry was "un-Islamic," and that fathers who...

The nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN is expected to be approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as early as Thursday, despite intense criticism by a former State Department official...

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has announced that the state will join nine others in suing the Environmental Protection Agency over a recently announced rule to reduce mercury emissions. The lawsuit, led by New...

John Negroponte on Tuesday promised that security and intelligence agencies would not use torture in gathering intelligence under his watch as National Director of Intelligence. Negroponte faced tough questioning during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence...

The federal government has unsealed the indictment of three men charged with plotting an attack on several financial institutions in the US. The three charged were Dhirin Barot, Nadeem Tarmohamed and Qaisar Shaffi, all of the UK. The...

Following up on a story reported yesterday in JURIST's Paper Chase, the New York State Assembly Codes Committee Tuesday defeated a bill to reinstate New York's death penalty by a vote of 11-7. The legislation, supported by...

The US Supreme Court asked for more police on Tuesday, citing recent attacks on judges and fears of terrorism. Justice Anthony Kennedy submitted a request to Congress for an additional $639,000 to pay for additional police patrols...

Topping Tuesday's international brief, leaders from the Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change have filed the first of nearly a dozen legal challenges to the validity of the March 31 elections in Zimbabwe . MDC...