In a 68-44 vote, the Florida House of Representatives has passed a measure that would allow judges to reduce or eliminate alimony when a recipient ex-spouse moves in with someone else. Under current Florida law, and in most jurisdictions in the country, judges are allowed to end alimony when a recipient remarries. Supporters of the [...]

The Canadian House of Commons Wednesday voted to give second reading to Bill C-38 , a measure to implement the Civil Marriage Act and extend marriage rights to same-sex couples. The bill, proposed by the ruling Liberal government, must now be reviewed by a legislative committee before a third and final vote. Courts in seven [...]

FBI officials announced Wednesday that the body of Emmett Till will be exhumed in upcoming weeks to determine the cause of his death and uncover evidence that could lead authorities to accomplices in his 1955 murder . In a brutal event that galvanized the country at the outset of the civil rights movement, Till was [...]

US audits released Wednesday show that at least $100 million dollars from the Development Fund for Iraq are unaccounted for due to mismanagement or possible fraud. The US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction filed two audit reports pinpointing flaws in the US handling of Iraqi money from oil sales after the 2003 Iraq war, [...]

Thierry Fagart, human rights head of the UN stabilization mission in Haiti , has called the 10-month detention of former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune without an appearance before a judge illegal under the Haitian constitution , which mandates that prisoners be arraigned within 48 hours of arrest. Neptune and former Interior Minister Jocelerme Privert, [...]

Yevgeny Adamov, former minister in charge of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) , was arrested Wednesday in Bern, Switzerland under a US warrant on charges of fraud and money laundering. He has been accused of diverting $9 million dollars of funds provided by the US Energy Department for improving Russian's nuclear security to [...]

The US Marine Corps has dropped charges against the Marine corporal responsible for shooting a wounded and unarmed Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque last November in an incident caught on a dramatic videotape aired on networks across the globe. A Marine spokesman said Wednesday that the Marine had fired the shots in self-defense, as he [...]

Colorado's House Judiciary Committee have killed SB 140 , a bill that would have allowed Colorado voters in the upcoming November election to vote on the addition of a same-sex marriage ban to the state Constitution. The measure was killed Tuesday on a 6-5 party line division after Democrats declared that it was unconstitutional to [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the ostensibly-successful Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, now under review in a month-long conference at the UN, may be on its last legs… Recognizing "the devastation that would be visited upon all mankind by a nuclear war," the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear [...]

The Mexican attorney general's office (PGR) Wednesday dropped a land dispute case brought against Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador . Lopez Obrador , the popular front-runner in the country's 2006 presidential race, had been charged with abuse of authority in a land extradition dispute after current Mexican President Vicente Fox retracted his promise [...]