The US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia has reinstated a $55 million verdict against two former Salvadoran generals for allowing torture and other human rights violations to occur during the El Salvadoran civil war....

Officials in New Orleans have agreed to temporarily halt the scheduled demolition of thousands of private homes severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina until a federal judge decides if he will hear a legal challenge. Community activists...

Presidential Authority to Conduct Warrantless Electronic Surveillance to Gather Foreign Intelligence Information, Congressional Research Service, January 5, 2005 [concluding that although the legality of the NSA warrantless surveillance program could not be determined due to the need for classified materials,...

Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) announced in a letter to rank-and-file Republican Representatives Saturday that he was formally stepping down as House Majority Leader . DeLay was forced to temporaily step aside...

Several French human rights groups led by the French League for Human Rights declared a proposed French immigration bill racist and a "blatant violation of immigrants' rights" in a joint statement issued Saturday. The proposed...

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori , who fled to Japan after a corruption scandal in 2000, registered through intermediaries to run for president of Peru again Friday, shortly after a Chilean judge detained him indefinitely...

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle vetoed a bill Friday that would have made doctors inform women seeking abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy that their fetuses may feel pain. The bill passed...

The Congressional Research Service , the non-partisan public policy research arm of the US Congress, reported Friday that although the legality of the NSA warrantless surveillance program could not be determined due to...

The number of hunger strike participants at the Guantanamo detention facility has decreased from 84 to 40 since a late-December spike US military authorities announced Friday. Thirty-two of the remaining 40 hunger...

Seven present or former members of the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals will testify on behalf of colleague and now US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito at his confirmation hearings beginning Monday according...