The head of Catholic bishops in Italy Monday denounced a plan by the Italian government to give same-sex couples many of the rights that heterosexual couples enjoy. Cardinal Camillo Ruini spoke to a conference...

US Army Col. Michael Steele has been formally reprimanded for giving improper orders to soldiers in Iraq, leading to the deaths of four unarmed Iraqi civilians near Samarra last May, according to recent reports by two US...

Kahle v. Gonzalez, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, January 22, 2006 . Read the full text of the...

A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Initial Response to Representative Mark Foley's E-mails to a Former Page, US Department of Justice, January 22, 2006 [finding that the FBI failed to respond promptly to allegedly improper e-mail correspondences between...

Cunningham v. California, US Supreme Court, January 22, 2006 . Read the Court's...

A twelve-person jury was selected Monday to sit in the CIA leak trial of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby . Even though jury selection began last Tuesday and was...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Monday dismissed a challenge to the constitutionality of changes to copyright law made in the 1990s. The Court affirmed a lower court's dismissal of Kahle v. Gonzales [opinion...

President Bush Monday celebrated his administration's anti-abortion record in a telephone address to pro-life marchers demonstrating in Washington DC on the anniversary of the 1972 Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court ruling. Bush told the gathering that...

A lawyer for Saddam-era Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan has filed an appeal with the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) arguing that the Tribunal's Appeals Chamber was not authorized to effectively direct...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to respond promptly to allegedly improper e-mail correspondence between former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) and a former congressional page from Louisiana in July 2006,...