Nevada Attorney General Brian Sandoval has challenged a Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision on regulations for the proposed nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain , adding to a rash of litigation that has stalled...
Russia on Friday released two former Guantanamo Bay detainees from a Moscow detention center. Airat Vakhitov and Rustam Akhmyarov, who were extradited to Russia by the US in 2004, were arrested ...
Human rights groups are pressuring the Canadian government to open a new investigation into the role the government played in allegedly allowing a number of Muslim Canadians to be imprisoned and tortured in Syria. Testimony ended Thursday in an...
Furious at a rising tide of lawlessness in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Wednesday evening reassigned 1,500 New Orleans police from search-and-rescue missions to halt widespread looting in the battered and flooded...
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has cut short a vacation and returned to New York in an attempt to break an impasse reached by negotiators discussing an overhaul of the UN and a related...
The American Civil Liberties Union argued Wednesday that a federal judge should lift a gag order on a library from which the FBI has demanded circulation records under the USA Patriot Act ....
The US Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday temporarily waived certain regulatory fuel standards required under the Clean Air Act in an attempt to head off any shortages and rising prices caused by Hurricane Katrina. EPA Administrator...
EU diplomats said Wednesday that the European Union may hold off on calls for sanctions against Iran if the country is referred to the UN over its continued nuclear activity. The UN has...
A California state prison inmate who led a radical Islamist group and three others were indicted Wednesday on charges that they were plotting terror attacks on several sites in Los Angeles. The indictment...
A high-level Food and Drug Administration official resigned Wednesday to protest the agency's delay in deciding whether to approve emergency contraception pills for over-the-counter sale. Susan Wood, director of the FDA Office of Women's Health ,...
