Human Rights Watch warned Wednesday that the outcry over a retracted Newsweek story about religious abuse at Guantanamo is overshadowing genuine incidents where US personnel at the base intentionally offended the religious beliefs of Muslim...

With uncertainty looming in France, former French president and architect of the European Constitution Valery Giscard D'Estaing warned on Thursday that there could be no renegotiation of the treaty if French voters reject it in a referendum...

Officials on Wednesday said a proposal is on the table that would allow the FBI greater access to business records without requiring judicial approval. After consultations with the Bush administration, Republican leaders of the US Senate Committee on Intelligence...

Republicans on the US House Armed Services Committee early Thursday backed off on an amendment to a defense bill that would have further limited women's participation in military operations, instead adopting the language of a Pentagon policy...

UN legal experts met with Indonesian leaders Thursday to launch an inquiry into the violence and pro-Indonesian militia killings that followed the 1999 independence vote in East Timor and eventually led to the territory's emergence...

Testimony of the Honorable Joan H. Lefkow, Senate Judiciary Committee, May 18, 2005 . Excerpt:I am...

A Senate Foreign Relations Committee minority report released Wednesday says that Bush administration UN ambassador nominee John Bolton planned to ask CIA Director George Tenet to help punish a government intelligence analyst who disagreed with him. The...

The long-awaited debate over the fate of the judicial filibuster began Wednesday in the US Senate. Republican majority leader Senator Bill Frist opened the floor debate and accused the Democrats of using the...

Following up on a story previously reported on JURIST's Paper Chase, a jury in West Palm Beach Florida has ordered investment giant Morgan Stanley to pay $850 million in punitive damages to billionaire investor Ronald Perelman . On...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Spain officially ratified the EU Constitution today after the Spanish Senate voted 225 - 6 to approve the document. Spain held a non-binding referendum in...