The Congressional Black Caucus is expected to announce Thursday its opposition to the confirmation of US Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. . The Caucus is made of 42 Democratic House members...
A former Rwandan mayor on Wednesday pleaded guilty to aiding the 1994 genocide as part of a plea deal with prosecutors for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Under the plea deal, Paul...
US House Rep. Tom DeLay has asked the judge in his case to split the remaining two charges against him and move forward with a trial on one of them. After the judge in...
The US House has voted to renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 , under which the federal government guarantees insurance coverage for catastrophic losses caused by terror attacks. The House approved H.R. 4314 [bill...
A memo obtained Wednesday shows that the top US general in Iraq, Gen. George Casey , was aware of reports of abuse of detainees by Iraqi security forces in June. The memo, dated June 22, indicated that Casey...
Supporters of a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in Massachusetts delivered 170,000 signatures to the secretary of state Wednesday, moving them one step closer to putting the initiative on the ballot in 2008. The drive,...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Wednesday said that the US-led war on terror has threatened the world ban on torture and weakened the US' international standing on human rights. Arbour said that "unassailable"...
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has asked that a jury verdict finding it negligent in the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center be set aside. According to a...
Former Hollinger International executive Jack Boultbee Wednesday pleaded not guilty to fraud charges a week after failing to appear for his originally scheduled arraignment. Boultbee appeared in a Chicago court to answer charges stemming from...
The US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled in a 2-1 decision that restrictions imposed on telemarketers by North Dakota help to maintain privacy and are not overly broad. The court's holding reverses...
