The Australian Senate on Thursday narrowly voted down a motion to disallow a regulation approved by Australia Governor-General Michael Jeffrey allowing the federal government to effectively veto the Civil Unions Bill 2006 ,...

Australian Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock , responding Friday to a independent review of new security laws, defended the government's power to define which groups are terrorist organizations subject to criminal penalties. The Security Legislation Review Committee , a public...

Pusho Ibrahim Ali Daza Yei, Iraq's deputy justice minister, has said that Shiite militias control Iraq's prison system and that Iraq "cannot control the prisons." Yei said that Shiite militiamen free other militia members that have been...

Defense lawyers for the US Marines accused of killing 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha last November plan to scrutinize the authenticity of the videotape described in the TIME magazine report that first prompted an...

The US military on Friday said that the Army's Criminal Investigation Command will conduct an investigation into the deaths of three detainees in US custody in the Salahaddin province of Iraq, located north of...

Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005, signed into law by President George W. Bush June 15, 2006 . Read the full text of the...

A New Hampshire judge on Thursday dismissed 5 of 8 counts in a lawsuit brought by Democrats against Republicans after the jamming of Democratic phone lines in the 2002 Senate race between Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) [official...

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that, despite a 2005 US Supreme Court ruling barring the death penalty for juveniles, the mental age of a death row inmate could not be invoked to...

Hudson v. Mitchell, Supreme Court of the United States, June 15, 2006 . Read the Court's majority opinion ...

One week after the US House of Representatives voted 379-35 to pass the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act , President Bush signed into law the legislation that will increase by tenfold the maximum...