The Conservative Party government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper introduced new legislation in the federal House of Commons Tuesday that would set fixed dates for regular federal elections and would potentially...

Shortly after a meeting with President Bush, new Iraqi ambassador to the United States and former Iraq ambassador to the United Nations Samir al-Sumaida'ie said in a CNN interview Tuesday that US Marines intentionally killed ...

Costa Rica's Supreme Court has upheld a law forbidding same-sex marriage , rejecting arguments that the law is unconstitutional. Hearing a lawsuit brought by lawyer Yashin Castrillo Fernandez, the court's Constitutional Chamber voted...

A US magistrate judge ruled Tuesday that US Department of Justice employees must disclose whether they were aware of the government monitoring conversations between Sept. 11 detainees and their attorneys. The judge's ruling comes in a lawsuit...

Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic died of natural causes on March 11 when guards found him dead in his prison cell at the detention center for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...

Defense lawyers in the Saddam Hussein trial on Wednesday accused a prosecution witness of perjury and urged chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman to stop proceedings at the Iraqi High Criminal Court to investigate the credibility...

Garcetti v. Ceballos, Supreme Court of the United States, May 30, 2006 [holding that First Amendment protections do not extend to government employees for comments made while performing their official duties, even when the employee is acting to expose alleged...

A Jordanian court on Tuesday convicted the editors of two national newspapers and sentenced them to two months' imprisonment for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that incited protests and violence across the Muslim world earlier...

European Parliament v. Council of the European Union, European Court of Justice, May 30, 2006 [ruling that an agreement between the European Union and the US that compels European airlines to disclose information about passengers flying from Europe to the...

Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act, signed by President George W. Bush, May 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the Act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....