The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-3 in Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York that the city government lacks standing under the Racketeer Influenced...

Guatemalan authorities have issued an arrest warrant for former president Alfonso Portillo , after the US government requested his extradition on Sunday to face charges of money laundering . Portillo, who was president...

A Myanmar government official has said that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be released from house arrest in November when her sentence is scheduled to end. Witnesses reported that Home...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could face a third corruption trial based on new information that recently surfaced, according to Saturday reports. Berlusconi, who is already facing two separate trials on charges of corruption...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday called for a new age of human rights and safety in the embattled Caucasus region of Russia, where the killings of journalists...

US Vice President Joe Biden announced Saturday that the US will appeal a ruling dismissing voluntary manslaughter and weapons charges against five Blackwater guards who were indicted for...

A federal judge on Friday reduced a $1.92 million jury verdict against a Minnesota woman who was found to have violated music copyrights to about $54,000. Chief Judge Michael Davis of the US District Court for the...

A German court in Nuremberg has issued an arrest warrant for Argentina's former de-facto president Jorge Videla for helping to cover up the death of a German citizen in 1978, at the height of the "Dirty War" [JURIST news...

The Hawaii Senate voted 18-7 Friday in favor of legislation allowing same-sex civil unions . The act would confer upon homosexual and heterosexual couples rights and benefits equal to those afforded married couples...

US President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill that will allow Americans to claim contributions made to Haitian earthquake relief efforts as a deduction on their 2009 federal income tax returns....