US Senate Democrats Wednesday launched their first concerted effort to challenge the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court by requesting information regarding a 2002 case he participated in involving mutual...

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted two men on charges that they sought to smuggle three surface-to-air missiles into the US for use abroad. Chao Tung Wu and Yi Qing Chen were charged under a 2004 anti-terror law...

The US Department of Defense said Wednesday that it will not seek the death penalty in the cases of any of the five newly charged Guantanamo Bay detainees or the four previously charged, including David Hicks and...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday reaffirmed that the US meets international standards in its treatment of terror suspects, despite rising debate over the issue. Rice told an American Bar...

The European Commission on Wednesday granted Turkey the sought-after "functioning market economy" status in its bid to join the EU, but it warned the government that a stronger stance on torture and human rights...

In Wednesday's environmental law news, the US House of Representatives voted late Wednesday night to remove provisions from a budget bill that would have allowed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and offshore drilling...

Decree announcing a state of emergency in France and the application of the 1955 emergency laws, President Jacques Chirac, November 9, 2005. Read the full text of the decree and the 1955 laws (as amended) in French. Reported in JURIST's...

Legislators on a US House and Senate conference committee for the USA Patriot Act and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005 are closing on a deal that would limit certain law enforcement powers under the Act in...

US lawmakers Wednesday expressed some discomfort with a proposal by the Bush administration to increase the response role of the US Department of Defense in disasters during a hearing of a House Armed Services Committee...

Judith Miller , the New York Times reporter at the center of the CIA leak case , has left the newspaper after 28 years there, the Times announced Wednesday . Miller negotiated...