AP is reporting that the Florida Supreme Court has refused to overturn Judge George Greer's order of earlier this afternoon blocking the Florida Department of Children and Familes from taking custody of Terri Schiavo. Read the order...

The former head of security for fallen Russian oil giant Yukos has been convicted of murder and attempted murder in a Russian court, the first conviction among former Yukos executives being held in Russia. Lawyers for Alexei...

The Federal Election Commission took tentative first steps in regulating Internet political activity Thursday by calling for public input on limited campaign guidelines for the medium. While commissioners expressed a reluctance to regulate online speech in any...

France said Thursday that it will delay a UN Security Council vote on its proposed resolution that would ensure that any Darfur war crimes trials are held at the International Criminal Court . France drafted its...

Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board Thursday denied the asylum claim of Jeremy Hinzman , the US soldier who deserted his unit before being deployed to Iraq and subsequently fled to Canada, saying that Hinzman did not...

AP is reporting that a Florida state judge has ruled that Governor Jeb Bush and Florida's social services agency do not have any legal grounds for taking protective custody of Terri Schiavo .2:56 PM ET...

In Thursday's environmental law brief, a Jakarta Indonesia court has ruled that the travel ban on the six Newmont Mining Co. executives that has been in place since last October is illegal. Despite the ruling, the executives...

Chile's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet cannot be prosecuted over the killing of his predecessor as Chile's army chief, General Carlos Prats . The ruling reverses a...

ABC WFTS-TV in Tampa is reporting that the Florida Department of Children and Families may have lost an opportunity - perhaps its only opportunity - to take Terri Schiavo into protective custody and restore her feeding tube...

The Austrian Justice Ministry has dropped its case against a former Nazi psychiatrist accused of killing children at a Vienna clinic after he was ruled unfit for trial. The government said Wednesday that Heinrich Gross, 89, suffers...