Human Rights Watch has released its 2005 human rights report surveying human rights developments in more than 60 countries in 2004. The report says that worldwide system for protecting human rights was significantly weakened in...

US District Court Judge Clarence Cooper has ruled that the Cobb County School District in Atlanta must remove an evolution disclaimer inside textbooks. The stickers inside the science books stated "Evolution is a theory not a fact."...

A five-day military court hearing for an unidentified Navy SEAL lieutenant accused of abusing an Iraqi prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison has concluded. Prosecutors said actions by the lieutenant were "unacceptable by any...

A Mississippi judge set bond at $250,000 Wednesday for Edgar Ray Killen , an alleged former KKK member charged with the murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. The judge also ordered a March 28 trial...

A Congressional committee negotiating an intelligence reform bill last month backed away from greater restrictions on interrogation by the CIA under pressure from the White House, the New York Times reported Thursday. The restrictions were part...

UNICEF spokesmen said Thursday that they have evidence that Tamil Tiger rebels in northern and eastern Sri Lanka have recruited children in tsunami relief camps as child soldiers to help their ongoing struggle for autonomy...

An Iranian court has summoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi for questioning on an undisclosed matter, indicating that she must appear by Sunday or face prison. Ebadi, Iran's first female judge, won the Nobel in...

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, the SEC is considering a combined settlement with several brokerage firms in its probe of the $204 billion auction-rate bond market. The SEC's investigation has uncovered several potential violations related...

Mark Thatcher , the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been fined 3 million rand ($500,000) by a court in South Africa in connection with his role in a plot to overthrow the...

US Army Spc. Charles Graner may take the witness stand in his own defense Thursday on the second day of the defense case in his court-martial at Fort Hood TX for abusing Iraqi detainees...