The New York Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that a custodial parent can be convicted of kidnapping where the parent's actions are "so obviously and unjustifiably dangerous or harmful to the child as...
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The New Mexico Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the same-sex partner of a parent who has adopted a child has a right to seek custody of that child after the partnership has dissolved....
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday sent a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner , demanding that the state stop purging its voting rolls, a process that is not approved under...
An Egyptian court on Saturday found former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak , guilty of complicity to kill protesters during the Arab Spring protests and sentenced him to life in prison. The court also found...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that Col. Morris Davis , the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay may not seek money damages from...
The US Army has dropped one of 17 murder charges and added others, including steroid and alcohol use, in its case against Army Sgt. Robert Bales, his lawyer told reporters on Friday. Bales was charged with 17 counts of...
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic told a Montenegrin state television station Friday that he does not think that the 1995 Srebrenica Masscre was genocide. The Srebrenica massacre took place during the Bosnian Civil War [JURIST...
Upwards of 20.9 million people worldwide work in forced labor, the International Labour Organization (ILO) , a UN agency focusing on labor rights, redported Friday. The ILO's estimate of about 21 million people in forced labor...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the Sudanese government to reform its discriminatory laws and abolish both the death penalty and all corporal punishment after a young Sudanese woman was sentenced to death...
The Chinese government has detained a former aide to a vice minister in China's security ministry who is suspected of spying for the US , anonymous sources told Reuters. The former aide, whose identity is unknown, allegedly passed...
