A preliminary hearing began Thursday at Camp Pendleton , California, in proceedings against US Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich , commander of the platoon implicated in the killing and suspected cover-up of the death of 24 Iraqi...

The United States should not deport foreign detainees back to their home countries if there is reason to believe they will face torture , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyers argued Thursday. Appearing before the...

The US Department of Justice has begun an internal inquiry to determine whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have perjured himself in testimony before Congress, DOJ Inspector General Glenn A. Fine [official...

China's National People's Congress passed a new law Thursday to hold officials legally accountable for providing accurate and timely information on public emergencies. The law also allows the government to revoke...

A federal judge Wednesday rejected several claims in a legal challenge to Arizona's voter ID law filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) , including a claim that the...

The High Court of Australia on Thursday struck down an amendment to Australia's Commonwealth Electoral Act passed in 2006 that took voting rights away from all prisoners regardless of the length of their sentence,...

Vickie Lee Roach v. Electoral Commissioner and Commonwealth of Australia, High Court of Australia, August 30, 2007 [strucking down a 2006 amendment to Australia's Commonwealth Electoral Act that took voting rights away from all prisoners regardless of the length of...

The Chinese National People's Congress passed anti-monopoly legislation Thursday aimed at protecting China's economic security and easing the Chinese economy away from state-run monopolies. The new law establishes a series of...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday blocked the Attorney General of Louisiana from filing suit on behalf of nearly 35,000 Hurricane Katrina victims against the US Army Corps of Engineers under the...

Hezbollah recklessly and sometimes intentionally fired rockets at civilian targets during the summer 2006 Lebanon conflict , according to a 128-page report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Hezbollah was not legally justified...