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 [...]

Colombian police arrested two American soldiers Wednesday for attempted arms smuggling, potentially to illegal far-right Colombian para-military groups. This is the second set of arrests for US military smuggling in the past month; the other involved a US Air National Guard pilot and a crewmember who had attempted to smuggle millions of dollars worth of [...]

Sean Gerard Hoey, a member of the Irish Republican Army , was charged Wednesday with the murder of 29 people in the largest terrorist bombing in the history of Northern Ireland's "troubles." The 1998 Omagh bombing also injured almost 300 others, and has remained largely unsolved due to mishandling of evidence . Hoey has been [...]

A military judge at Fort Hood has rejected Pfc. Lynndie England's guilty plea in her Abu Ghraib prison scandal court-martial, torpedoing her plea agreement. 2:51 PM ET – In declaring the mistrial, Col. James Pohl said statements by England about her understanding of the purpose of her activities with the Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib [...]

Report of Americans United for Separation of Church and State on Religious Coercion and Endorsement of Religion at the United States Air Force Academy, April 30, 2005 . Excerpt: Americans United for Separation of Church and State has received numerous complaints from a variety of sources, representing diverse religious backgrounds, about extremely troubling religious policies [...]

AP is reporting that Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin , previously demoted and stripped of his security clearance in the wake of August allegations that he had spied for Israel, was arrested Wednesday after turning himself in on charges of supplying classified information on Iran to lobbyists of a pro-Israel group, the American Israel Public Affairs [...]

Former Serbian police general Sreten Lukic pleaded not guilty Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to charges of overseeing the murder, deportation and persecution of Kosovo Albanians in 1999. Lukic, who is charged with four counts of crimes against humanity and one count of violations of the laws or customs of [...]

French media said Wednesday that the latest television appearance by French President Jacques Chirac calling on voters to endorse the European constitution was largely a success. Chirac participated in a televised town hall meeting in April, but French commentators called the appearance a failure after Chirac struggled to persuade young voters to support the EU [...]