Gunmen ambushed and killed a former Iraqi judge on Thursday in western Baghdad, also wounding his son and driver, according to Iraqi police. Saleh Hassan Yass al-Awsi, a Sunni, was among those removed from office by the Iraqi government's...

The sudden death of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay on Wednesday presents the legal system, Lay's family and Lay's own legacy with major challenges, according to a University of Houston law professor who closely followed the trial...

The US House Committee on Government Reform is waiting for the US Defense Department and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to comply with a subpoena seeking to compel the Pentagon to turn over several documents, including...

The New York Court of Appeals , the state's highest court, ruled Thursday morning that New York's ban on same-sex marriage is not unconstitutional. The ruling comes in four consolidated cases where...

Georgia's latest attempt to implement photo identification cards for voters was challenged Wednesday by the ACLU and other voting rights advocates, who filed a motion in federal district court seeking a preliminary injunction, arguing that the bill...

Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony must be arrested, a spokesman for the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Wednesday, a day after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni promised Kony conditional amnesty ....

The Russian Duma , the lower house of parliament, overwhelmingly passed a draft law Wednesday that would give Russian President Vladimir Putin the right to use Russia's armed forces and secret services...

US Army prosecutors charged 1st Lt. Ehren Watada late Wednesday in connection with his refusal to deploy to Iraq with the rest of his unit last week. Watada...

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg testified at the outset of congressional field hearings on federal immigration reform Wednesday that competing bills passed by the US House and Senate are both unrealistic. Speaking...

Thirty-eight people were convicted of corruption Wednesday for rigging public works contracts to finance political parties while now-French President Jacques Chirac was mayor of Paris in the late 1980s and early '90s. Prosecutors alleged that...