The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned EPA regulations designed to deal with water pollution from manure pollution on major farms. The court ruled Monday that the regulations , which took effect...

The US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a $54.6 million verdict against two retired Salvadoran generals for allegedly allowing torture and other abuses during a 12-year civil war in El Salvador. The court ruled Monday...

Dennis Rader, the man accused of being the BTK serial killer, was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder at a Kansas courthouse. The BTK killer, whose nickname stands for "Bind, Torture, Kill," was suspected of eight murders...

Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has spoken out on the some of the obstacles in the way of drafting of a new permanent constitution for his country. Writing in the Wall Street Journal Monday,...

Floribert Ndjabu, leader of the Nationalist and Integrationist Front in the Democratic Republic of Congo , was arrested Tuesday over the killing of nine UN peacekeepers last week. Ndjabu was captured in a health clinic in the...

Roper v. Simmons, Supreme Court of the United States, March 1, 2005 . Excerpt [from the majority opinion by Justice Kennedy}:The differences between juvenile and adult offenders are too...

Senate Democrats voiced their displeasure Tuesday over President Bush's renomination of Department of the Interior Solicitor William Myers to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Democrats see the move as evidence that the Bush administration is not...

Chemical companies that supplied Agent Orange to the US military in Vietnam asked a federal judge Monday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Vietnamese citizens who say they were poisoned by their exposure. Lawyers for the Monsanto,...

Malaysia Tuesday began a campaign to round up an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants currently in the country, after extending an amnesty period several times. Police and immigration officials conducted searches around the country in an effort to...

The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First announced at a press conference Tuesday morning that they had filed a lawsuit in Illinois against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and several other US military...