Leading Thursday's states brief, the Massachusetts state legislature today overrode Governor Mitt Romney's veto of a bill which requiring emergency room doctors to offer emergency contraception to rape victims. Romney said he would not sign the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Thursday for collective international action to defeat terrorism as he addressed world leaders at the ongoing 2005 World Summit on UN reform . Putin urged the adoption of...

Chile's Supreme Court Thursday upheld the acquittal of former dictator Augusto Pinochet on charges that he ordered political abductions and murders as part of "Operation Condor" , a conspiracy between South American dictators...

Uzbekistan deputy state prosecutor Anvar Nabiyev on Thursday named 15 men who will stand trial next week for trying to overthrow the Uzbek government. The men, who allegedly organized disturbances in the town of Andijan...

US Chief Justice nominee John Roberts finished his fourth and final day of confirmation testimony Thursday morning by declaring "I am not an ideologue," adding that ideologues do not belong on the court. Though...

The US Senate has approved the creation of a new US Department of Justice office that would investigate racially motivated homicides that took place prior to 1970. The Unsolved Crimes Section was proposed in reaction to numerous...

Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal have said that the state will not file an immediate appeal to the US Supreme Court challenging a decision that allows the Base...

Thursday released draft anti-terrorism legislation that includes terms allowing police to detain terror suspects for up to three months without charge and creating a new criminal offense for "glorifying terrorism."...

The US House of Representatives approved a measure Wednesday that would add sexual orientation, gender, and disability to a current federal hate crimes law that already prohibits crimes based on the victim's race, ethnicity, or religion. The legislation was...

The former chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces has called off a trip to London after a complaint was filed in Great Britain against him and other top Israeli military officers for "war crimes." Moshe...