Attorneys general from California, New Mexico and Oregon have challenged a decision by the US Forest Service to allow road building and other development on more than 58.5 million acres of national forest previously protected. California Attorney...
Lebanon on Wednesday released a former lawmaker questioned in the investigation into the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . Nasser Qandil, a pro-Syrian legislator, refused to comment on what he told investigators after...
Officials struggled Wednesday to control looting in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as tiring law enforcement officers and National Guardsmen undertook more rescue and relief efforts. Widespread looting throughout the city has been reported, with crowds...
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday approved changes to procedures for military commissions used for trying certain detainees held at Guantanamo Bay . The changes to Military Commission...
Lebanon has arrested three former pro-Syrian security chiefs, and the head of the presidential guard Mustafa Hamdan turned himself into authorities after an arrest warrant was issued for him in connection with the killing of former...
Zimbabwe's parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved constitutional reforms that opposition lawmakers and many observers claimed would drastically reduce the rights of the country's citizens. The legislation, approved 103-29 in a legislature dominated by the Zanu PF party...
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia denounced the increasingly large role politics and moral issues have played in recent judicial appointments and decisions in a speech Monday at Chapman University . Scalia blasted "judge...
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Tuesday that he hoped the Senate could take up the contentious issue of judicial nominations by next week. During a meeting with the press, Frist said the Senate could finish debate...
The newly formed Iraqi government on Tuesday created a 55-member committee that will begin work on drafting the country's permanent constitution by the August 15 deadline prescribed by the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) , the interim Iraqi constitution. The...
Kenyan prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against three men for plotting the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi that killed 224 people. The three, Salmin Mohammed Khamis, Mohammed Kubwa Seif and Said Saggar Ahmed,...
