The city of Tucson, Arizona has joined a lawsuit against the the state's new immigration law , a court filing revealed Tuesday. Tucson was originally named as a defendant along...
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart announced Tuesday that an investigation has been launched into inadvertent data collection by Google while photographing streetscapes on unsecured wireless networks for its Street View...
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday condemned the recent execution of 18 people in Libya . The executed were charged with pre-meditated murder and several were foreign nationals from Chad, Egypt, and Nigeria. AI...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday called on the Obama administration to stop shielding Bush administration officials from civil suit and criminal prosecution in relation to the treatment of detainees in US custody....
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has failed to formulate a coordinated response to an attack involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD), according a report released Tuesday by DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine ....
Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the right to limit protests around military funerals in the case of Snyder v. Phelps . The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST...
Three judges were killed and three people were injured Tuesday in a Chinese courthouse by a security officer at a local bank. The shooter, Zhu Jun, was the head of security at a local Postal Savings Bank in Hunan...
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is reviewing whether any criminal or civil laws were violated by BP resulting in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill ....
The Australian government on Monday initiated proceedings against Japan in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) , claiming Japan has breached its obligations under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling . The...
UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay on Monday called for an international inquiry into the conduct of the Sri Lankan government during its civil war . Pillay, speaking at the opening of the fourteenth...