President George W. Bush has issued an executive order allowing federal contractors working to rebuild areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina to pay lower wages, effectively suspending regulations under the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act...

US District Court Judge Janet Hall Friday agreed with the American Civil Liberties Union that a gag order shielding the identity of librarians who had received an FBI demand for records about library patrons under...

Fresh from talks this week with other justice and interior ministers of the European Union , British Home Secretary Charles Clarke said Friday that Britain, currently holding the EU presidency, wants the EU to implement a...

New Orleans city attorney Sherry Landry said Friday that the city is now "fully secured" following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and the disorder that broke out afterwards. She told a news conference that "Fourteen...

Pharmaceutical company Merck. said Friday that it has no plans to make a comprehensive deal to settle the thousands of cases against the company concerning side effects of its arthritis drug Vioxx [Merck consumer website; JURIST news...

The UN has announced Thursday that 63 nations have agreed to sign a new treaty against nuclear terrorism. The International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism requires governments to punish those who...

In its latest bi-monthly report on human rights in Iraq the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) Thursday detailed widespread and lengthy detentions of suspected Sunni insurgents, systematic use of torture during interrogations at police...

Lawyers representing stockholders of Walt Disney Co. are appealing a decision that held that Disney board members did not violate their fiduciary duties or waste company resources when they hired and fired former...

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Thursday questioned the US administration's approach to detentions at Guantanamo Bay , where almost all detainees have been categorized by Combatant Status Review Tribunals as...

The Egyptian Presidential Election Commission late Thursday rejected a request by leading opposition candidate Ayman Nour to rerun Wednesday's presidential elections after reports of widespread fraud and procedural violations . An early...