The Philippines Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred a ruling on petitions brought against the state of emergency declared by President Gloria Arroyo last week. Arroyo, who today said the decree will remain in effect at least until Saturday , said the move was necessary to resist a coup plot which resulted in the arrest of [...]

Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee holding a second hearing Tuesday on the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program appeared frustrated by the lack of information released by the Bush administration. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) accused the White House of "running roughshod over the Constitution and hiding behind inflammatory rhetoric demanding Americans blindly trust [...]

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new rule that lowers the acceptable level of hexavalent chromium that can be present in a workplace. Previously, the acceptable level was 52 micrograms per cubic meter of air, per a rule originally issued in 1971. Under the new [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Randall v. Sorrell to decide whether Vermont's Act 64 campaign law , which places strict caps on campaign contributions and spending, should be upheld. The justices appeared skeptical of the state's limits with Justice Antonin Scalia calling the strict law "very unusual in an American [...]

The UK House of Lords Tuesday voted by a margin of 160-156 to remove references to the "glorification" of terrorism from the Terrorism Bill , proposed after the London bombings last July. The Lords received the bill after the UK House of Commons had previously voted to keep the offense among the bill's provisions, which [...]

The 12th General Conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) ended Tuesday with members of Arab states calling on the United Nations to adopt a resolution which bans offenses against religion, including Islam. The member countries harshly criticized the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad printed in European publications and urged the UN to bring individuals who [...]

Algerian Islamist Rachid Ramda has gone on trial in France for his alleged role in several deadly bomb attacks in Paris in 1995. Ramda was arrested in Britain in 1995, but delayed his extradition ten years until December 2005 with a series of appeals. He is charged with criminal association with a terrorist organization and [...]

One inmate was killed and three others wounded Tuesday as Afghan police fired on rioters trying to push down a gate at a Kabul prison, ending a day-long truce at the tense facility. Negotiations between the parties broke down Tuesday, prompting renewed rioting among inmates at Policharki prison . Police have blamed the riots on [...]

America Online (AOL) has filed three lawsuits in federal court in Virginia against international groups that allegedly stole information from AOL users, violating Virgina's anti-"phishing" law, the first of its kind in the US. The company, based in Dulles, is seeking $18 million in damages from the groups, claiming that thirty people violated the Virginia [...]

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton has indicated that he may offer a compromise over requests by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby for access to classified information in his trial on perjury charges . Walton issued an order Monday that reduced the number of intelligence briefings that he might order to be turned over the case, [...]