The federal trial of former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell on charges of corruption opened Tuesday with jury selection. Campbell, who served as mayor from 1994 to 2002, has strongly denied charges of racketeering, fraud...
An Austrian arbitration court has ruled that the country must return $150 million in artwork to the heir of the family from whom the works were seized by the Nazis, bringing to a close a case that wound its...
A coalition of civil rights groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Bush administration's warrantless domestic spying program . In the ACLU lawsuit [fact sheet;...
In addition to its ruling in the Oregon assisted suicide case, the US Supreme Court on Tuesday limited the citizenship of a bank to the state in which its main office is located for purposes...
Four Cambodian civil rights leaders arrested on defamation charges were unexpectedly granted bail and released from jail Tuesday. Leaders from the Cambodian Center for Human Rights , along with a journalist and union leader were released...
The UK House of Lords has blocked government plans to issue national identification cards , objecting to three aspects of the proposal including questions of cost. The Lords on Monday voted to halt the...
AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has upheld Oregon's Death with Dignity Act , rejecting federal efforts to prevent doctors from assisting patients in taking their own lives. In 2001, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft...
Lawyers for a group of Chinese Uighur detainees being held by the US at Guantanamo Bay plan to ask the US Supreme Court to hear an appeal of last month's District Court ruling authorizing their continued detention....
Voters in Chile elected Michelle Bachelet as president with 56 percent of the vote in a runoff election Sunday. Bachelet and her parents were imprisoned and tortured in 1973 under the regime...
California executed 76-year old Clarence Ray Allen Tuesday morning, despite protests that executing the ailing inmate was cruel and unusual punishment. Allen, who was blind, nearly deaf and confined to a wheelchair, was California's oldest death...