Two US citizens accused of conspiring to support al-Qaida were denied bail on Tuesday in separate federal courts. Tarik Shah of New York and Dr. Rafik Abdus of Florida were both arrested in a government sting operation Friday. Shah allegedly promised to train terrorists in hand-to-hand combat while Abdus is believed to have agreed to [...]

After assurances from her lawyer that she would attend a scheduled September trial in Serbia on abuse of power charges, Serbian authorities have cancelled an international arrest warrant for Mirjana Markovic , the wife of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic . Markovic is said to have fled to Russia in 2003 to avoid the charges. [...]

Citizens of the Netherlands went to the polls Wednesday to vote on whether to accept the proposed European Constitution . Recent opinion surveys say that nearly 60% of Dutch voters plan to reject the document, citing concerns such as discontent with the Dutch government, rising prices following introduction of the Euro, fears of being engulfed [...]

Florida Governor Jeb Bush Tuesday signed into law House Bill 1041 , providing for increased state oversight of clinics that provide second-trimester abortions. Bush said the law is about increasing safety standards and does not affect constitutionally protected abortion rights. Opponents say its true goal is to close clinics . Read the Bush press release [...]

Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sentenced Tuesday to nine years in jail for fraud and tax evasion, will appeal the verdict but his lawyers say they do not expect the appeal to be considered until September at the earliest. President Bush said on Tuesday that the US is continuing to monitor the case amidst concerns [...]

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Tuesday formally appealed the March California Superior Court ruling that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. That order was stayed in anticipation of this appeal. Reuters has more.

Chinese authorities have detained Zhu Jiuhi, a Beijing lawyer and activist for the development of rule of law after he attempted to file a landmark civil suit against the provincial government and lower-level governments for confiscating private investors' oil wells estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. No official charges have been brought [...]

The author of the Vanity Fair article that on Tuesday revealed the long-secret identity of "Deep Throat" is a San Francisco lawyer who first learned in 2002 that the Watergate leaker was former FBI deputy director W. Mark Felt . A friend of his daughter told John O'Connor , an attorney with the Howard Rice [...]

After a protracted Senate battle over judicial nominees , President Bush Tuesday pledged to consult with members of the Senate on an upcoming nomination to the Supreme Court:I'm obviously going to spend a lot of time reviewing the records of a variety of people and looking at their opinions and their character, and will consult [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday struck down part of the Bush administration's new financial disclosure requirements for unions, but upheld others. A majority of the three-judge panel found that Labor Secretary Elaine Chao exceeded her authority under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act by requiring reports on union [...]