The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard oral arguments in Georgia v. Randolph on whether police may search a home when one resident gives permission but the other...

A court in Mannheim has begun trial proceedings against neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel , a German citizen charged in connection with denying the Holocaust in publications and a website . Holocaust denial constitutes a crime under...

The office of Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti announced Tuesday that it is investigating the possibility of legal action against the companies that designed and constructed the levee systems that led to the flooding of large portions...

In meetings with US senators on Tuesday, US Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito said that the Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing women the right to an abortion was...

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the US Environmental Protection Agency has announced it will propose regulations for remodeling or renovating a home with lead-based paint by the end of the year. A federal law had been...

Italian state TV RAI Tuesday aired a documentary accusing the United States of using the chemical white phosphorus against both insurgents and civilians during a military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah...

US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Tuesday called for a Congressional investigation into who leaked information on secret Central Intelligence Agency prison facilities in Eastern Europe rumored...

The Pentagon on Tuesday announced it has issued a new directive restricting interrogation practices of suspected terrorists. Department of Defense Directive 3115.09 establishes the broad requirement that all intelligence interrogations of detained individuals...

Ralph Uwazurike , the leader of a Nigerian separatist organization has been charged with treason for his role in campaigning for the creation of an independent Biafra Nation . Uwazurike and six other alleged co-conspirators have...

The first hearing in the criminal trial of US Rep. Tom DeLay will be held November 22, Senior Judge Pat Priest has announced. Attorneys for DeLay have asked the judge, who was appointed to...