President Bush on Wednesday said he was "troubled" by what he called a lack of straightforward communication between the US Justice Department and Congress regarding the firings last year of eight US Attorneys that may have...

Thirty-one Egyptian women have been appointed as judges despite ongoing resistance from the nation's conservative Muslims, according to a decree published Wednesday by the head of Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council . Council chief Mukbil Shakir selected the judges...

Texas lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill to rescind a landmark executive order by Governor Rick Perry (R) requiring that school-age girls receive a vaccine against cervical cancer. The Texas House of...

Jury selection began in Chicago Wednesday in the US federal trial of Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black , the former chairman of media company Hollinger International - now Sun-Times Media Group Inc. -...

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled against granting medical marijuana plaintiff Angel Raich injunctive relief preventing federal law enforcement officials from enforcing the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) against her....

US President George W. Bush vowed Wednesday to increase efforts to reform US immigration laws and crack down on illegal drug trafficking during a press conference in Merida, Mexico, with new Mexican President Felipe Calderon...

A California state judge on Wednesday dropped the felony charges against four defendants in the Hewlett-Packard (HP) pretexting scandal after the defendants pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of fraudulent wire...

A federal judge on Wednesday held Sudan liable in the 2000 al-Qaeda bombing of the USS Cole , and moved the civil trial of a suit brought by families of seventeen...

Lawyers boycotted courts across Pakistan Wednesday for a third day in a continued effort to protest Friday's suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for unspecified misconduct. The nationwide strike by Pakistani lawyers was coupled with rallies...

Zimbabwe prosecutors failed to appear in court on Wednesday to prosecute opposition presidential hopeful Morgan Tsvangirai , arrested at a protest in Harare Sunday, leaving him free to return home. On Monday, Tsvangirai's...