Texas Governor Rick Perry has said that he plans to create a virtual border watch program , installing night-vision cameras along the Mexican border and streaming live video on the Internet to aid in the state's...

The US Senate on Thursday rejected a bill that would have given Native Hawaiians self-governance powers in line with those accorded to Native Americans. The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act ...

Russia has extradited Dragan Zelenovic , a Bosnian Serb wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to Bosnia, according to the Bosnian war crimes court on Friday. Bosnia plans to transfer...

The Supreme Court of Virginia has ordered a new trial for death row inmate Daryl Atkins, instructing the trial court to determine whether Atkins is mentally retarded and therefore ineligible for the death penalty...

Text of a letter to Vice President Dick Cheney from US Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, June 7, 2006 [complaining of Cheney's actions in brokering a deal with Committee member Orrin Hatch without Specter's knowledge that...

Vice President Dick Cheney Thursday met accusations from Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) that he had interfered with Specter's proposal to have his committee subpoena three phone companies accused of allegedly providing records to the National Security Administration...

Supporters of repealing the federal estate tax failed Wednesday to get enough votes to begin floor debate on the Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2005 , which would allow wealthy families to avoid the estate tax,...

The first commissioned US military officer to publicly refuse to join the war in Iraq did so Wednesday, calling the war "unlawful" in a taped statement played at a press conference in Tacoma, Washington, near the US...

Wednesday's Council of Europe (COE) report accusing 14 European countries of taking an active or passive role in a "global spider's web" of secret CIA prisons and rendition flights [JURIST news...

Human Rights Watch accused Sudan's Special Criminal Court on the Events in Darfur of failing to accomplish its mission of prosecuting war crimes, in a briefing paper released Thursday. In a press release , a...