A Pakistani anti-terrorism court in the province of Punjab on Tuesday sentenced two men to life in prison for violating Pakistan's blasphemy law . Mohammad Shafi and his son Mohammad Aslam were convicted in the city...

A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo Bay detainee Abdul Razak Ali. The judge rejected Razak Ali's...

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed emergency legislation Tuesday making it a crime to picket or protest a funeral. The move comes after Reverend Fred Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church [WARNING: readers may find material...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in J. McIntyre Machinery v. Nicastro on the ability of a state, under the Fourteenth...

The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill released its full final report on Tuesday, tracing the deeper root causes of the spill and recommending steps to avoid future incidents. The report highlights mistakes made...

China has failed to achieve the goals it set out in its first national human rights plan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) declared in a report released on Tuesday. In its assessment of the government's National Human...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 8-0 in Mayo Foundation for Medical Research v. United States that medical residents are not classified as students for the purpose of federal tax exemption. The...

The New York Court of Appeals on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against bond insurance company MBIA alleging breach of contract brought by several of the world's largest financial institutions. The lawsuit challenged the break-up...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 8-1 in Ransom v. FIA Card Services, N.A. that debtors who apply for Chapter 13 bankruptcy cannot use a car payment as a deduction from their...

The Log Cabin Republicans on Monday urged the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to resume proceedings in their lawsuit against the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy [10 USC § 654...