The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First announced at a press conference Tuesday morning that they had filed a lawsuit in Illinois against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and several other US military...

A US district judge found her husband and mother murdered in her Chicago home Monday evening. Police did not provide any details on the killings, but media reports indicated that the bodies were those of Michael F. Lefkow and...

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the US government was liable for agreements to cover contract costs for several Indian tribes despite arguments that Congress did not appropriate funds for the full amount. Under the Indian Self-Determination and...

CBS News is reporting that the US Supreme Court has struck down the possibility of the death penalty for juvenile killers. SCOTUSBlog has more on the Court's 5-4 opinion in Roper v. Simmons, 03-633.10:30 AM ET -...

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, telecommunications entrepreneur Walter Anderson, Washington business executive who earned nearly a half-billion dollars through off-shore ventures, was indicted in a $200 million income tax evasion scheme. The indictment charges Anderson with engaging...

Rhode Island became the seventh state to ban smoking indoors Tuesday, as a state law took effect at midnight. The ban covers all indoor workplaces and almost all bars and restaurants, but certain...

China Tuesday criticized a US State Department report on its human rights record, accusing the United States of using human rights to interfere in the country's internal affairs. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman also alleged human rights...

In Tuesday's international brief, a UN report not yet released publicly has called for in-country courts martial of UN peacekeepers who are accused of sexual abuse, according to a UN official. The report, written by Jordanian UN...

The US military has appointed a three-star general to take over the investigation into alleged abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and extended the deadline for completion until March 31. Air Force Lt. Gen. Randall "Mark"...

France has replaced the US as the industrialized nation receiving the most asylum applications from refugees, though overall numbers of refugees seeking asylum in Europe and North America have reached their lowest levels since 1988, according to report from...