The office of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced Friday that it does not expect to pursue state criminal charges against Maurice "Hank" Greenberg , former AIG chairman and CEO....
Thousands of Paris police officers are enforcing a new ban on public rallies in the French capital "likely to start or fuel disorder" declared under emergency powers granted to local authorities in the wake of widespread rioting...
The Haitian Electoral Council ordered Friday that the names of two Haitian-born US citizens, Dumarsais Simeus and Samir Mourra, be taken off the ballot of authorized candidates for the country's upcoming presidential election . The decision is...
Delegates from over 120 member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concluded their tenth annual, five-day Conference of the State Parties at The Hague Friday, and agreed ...
President Bush sent a memo to White House staff members Friday announcing mandatory "ethics" briefings next week. The week-long series of "refresher lectures" on general ethics rules and the protection of classified information appears to be in response to...
The landmark Pennsylvania federal trial debating the legality of a school district's decision to teach ninth-grade biology students the theory of anti-evolutionary intelligent design drew to a close Friday. The plaintiffs, eight families in...
Oregon Circuit Judge Joseph Guimond Friday upheld the constitutionality of Measure 36 , an Oregon constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage . Judge Guimond rejected arguments that the Measure, defining marriage as "between one man and...
A lawyer for former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , who resigned Friday after a grand jury indictment , has outlined a possible defense for his client's alleged false statements before a grand...
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein accepted a last minute offer of exile from Arab leaders in 2003 just before the US-led invasion of Iraq, according to an Al Arabiya television documentary. According to the report, the deal...
The Alaska Supreme Court issued an opinion Friday ending the state practice of denying benefits to same-sex partners of public employees. While the high court determined that the policy violated the equal protection clause of the Alaska...
