The Navajo Nation's Tribal Council voted Friday to override Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr.'s veto of a same-sex marriage ban it approved last month for the UnitedS States' largest Indian reservation. The Dine Marriage...
Italian prosecutors have appealed the 2004 acquittal of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges that he bribed judges to block competing industrialist Carlo De Benedetti from buying a state-owned food conglomerate. In 1985, judges...
Former FBI No. 2 W. Mark Felt , also known as "Deep Throat", is not likely to be prosecuted for revealing information to reporters during the Watergate scandal according to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales,...
Koran Inquiry: Description of Incidents, US Southern Command, June 3, 2005 . Excerpt:During an interrogation in FEB 02,...
Montoy, et al., v. Kansas, et al., Supreme Court of the State of Kansas, June 3, 2005 . Excerpt:The initial attractiveness of the Board's suggestion...
AP is reporting that the Pentagon has confirmed that a US soldier at the terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay kicked a detainee's Koran and that a guard's urine was splashed on the Islamic sacred text.8:35 PM ET -...
In a long-awaited decision handed down Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected the state's proposed $145 million dollar finance plan for public schools. In late March 2005 lawmakers approved the additional $145 million in state...
Leading Friday's international brief, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer Friday vetoed a part of the new penal code {JURIST report] approved by the Turkish Parliament that would have lowered the penalty for anyone...
In the biggest settlement yet in the Catholic clergy child sex abuse scandal , the Kentucky Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington agreed on Friday to set up a $120 million fund to pay victims. A...
Following up on a report Thursday in JURIST's Paper Chase, Serbian Minister for Human Rights Rasim Ljajic said Friday that Serbian TV's broadcast of a disturbing video of six Bosnian Muslim youths being...