The past weekend, Hugo Chávez, the president and strong man of Venezuela, threatened his opponents with the approval of twenty-six more laws. He used a little more...

Laws in all but a handful of states give the public access to government e-mail. But what if that e-mail was intentionally deleted or routinely purged?In Hawaii, Gov....

Barack Obama called on Tuesday for changing federal bankruptcy laws to help military families, seniors and victims of natural disasters, and accused John McCain of...

The ex-head of Britain’s MI5 domestic spy agency said Tuesday she opposes Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s plans for tougher new anti-terrorism laws.Making her...

Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed changing bankruptcy laws to fast-track the process for military families, help seniors keep their homes, and protect people recovering...

Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed changing bankruptcy laws to “fast-track” the process for military families, help seniors keep their homes, and protect...

A Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday said France’s legal framework for prosecuting terror suspects is too broad, resulting in too many arrests based on...

Having lived with racism every day of my life, I’m sure my mentality has been altered by my knowledge of the way many of my fellow Prince George citizens think about...

British Minister Gordon Brown said Friday that an opposition lawmaker’s decision to trigger a special election to protest planned terrorism laws is a farce.David...

In a rare public comment, the head of Britain’s MI5 domestic spy agency said Monday it has not offered the government any advice on contentious proposals for...

Grenada is amending its finance laws as the Caribbean nation prepares to relaunch its offshore sector.Angus Smith, chief of the island’s financial regulatory...

Massachusetts is the latest state to consider putting a new crime on the books: rape by fraud. Currently, a sex act only qualifies as rape if physical force is used. We...

A judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the city from enforcing five gun-control ordinances pending a challenge from the National Rifle Association.The NRA argues that...

A Philadelphia judge has temporarily blocked the violence-plagued city from enforcing its new gun-control laws.Common Pleas Judge Jane Cutler Greenspan is granting the...

A parliamentary group is functioning on a couple of oil-related outline bills, one to restore the state-run oil business and another to fight oil smuggling, said senior...

A parliamentary committee is working on a pair of oil-related draft bills, one to re-establish the state-run oil company and another to fight oil smuggling, a senior...

Britain plans to force pharmaceutical companies to share more information with regulators about clinical trials after an investigation recently concluded that...

Britain is monitoring 11 people under a strict house arrest program used to limit the activities of suspected terrorists, a minister said Thursday.The program is used...

Bar patrons in Utah, which has some of the nation’s strictest liquor laws, will soon be able to get 50 percent tipsier off one cocktail. Be warned, though: no...

British lawmakers agreed Thursday to allow a house arrest program for suspected terrorists to continue for another year, but warned the system could begin to resemble...