A proposed ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in Massachusetts can move forward after state Attorney General Tom Reilly ruled Wednesday that Article 48 of the state constitution allows voters...

US Army Sgt. Christopher W. Greatorex was acquitted Wednesday of charges that he beat a detainee at a facility at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan who later died from the injuries. A three-person military jury...

Children and pregnant women cannot be included in pesticide testing on humans, according to a proposed rule released Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency . Under the proposed regulations, an independent oversight board would be charged...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke told the European Parliament Wednesday that it may be necessary for EU member states to accept an erosion of some civil liberties in order to protect their countries from organized...

Chile's Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by deposed Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet of a lower court decision in July that stripped him of immunity from prosecution. Pinochet, 89, is...

UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines , filed its reorganization plan and disclosure statement in US bankruptcy court Wednesday, before the recently extended November 1 expiration of its exclusive ability to...

Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky officially notified the district election commission Wednesday of his plans to run for the Moscow legislature in the December election, according to his lawyer Anton...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich that attempted to stop the military from moving part of the 183rd Fighter Wing out of the state. The governor had argued that the...

Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they planned on filing new charges against about a dozen suspects who are allegedly involved in the sale of questionable tax shelters by accounting firm KPMG . Prosecutors discussed the ongoing investigation at...

Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act, passed by the California Assembly . Read the full text of the bill here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....