A proposed anti-terror law pitted the UK House of Lords and House of Commons against each other in a ferocious debate Thursday night and Friday morning as amended and re-amended versions of the Prevention of Terrorism Bill [official text...
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, passed by the US Senate, March 10, 2005 [making it harder for those in debt to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy eliminating almost all debts, and instead requiring them to file...
Executive summary of a report by Vice Admiral Albert T. Church on DOD interrogation operations, March 10, 2005 [indicating that he had no evidence to suggest that senior Pentagon civilian or military officials encouraged or pressured lower-level officers to do...
Canada honored four slain RCMP officers Thursday afternoon in a nationally-televised memorial service attended by Prime Minister Paul Martin, Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson representing the Queen, and 10,000 police officers from Canada, the United States and around...
The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin et al. v. The Dow Chemical Company et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judge Jack B. Weinstien, March 10, 2005 [dismissing a lawsuit filed on...
The Prosecutor v. Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, Indictment, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, released March 10, 2005 [charging the ex-Kosovo PM and former KLA commander with 17 counts of crimes against humanity - including inhumane...
The US Senate has passed a credit card-company backed bankruptcy bill that will make it harder for many Americans to clear their debts. The vote on passage of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 [THOMAS...
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, including the Optional Protocal concerning the compulsory settlement of disputes before the International Court of Justice, United Nations, 1963 [assent to the Protocol withdrawn by the United States as announced by the US State Department,...
Speaking Thursday at a global anti-terrorism summit in Madrid slated to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for terrorism to be outlawed in all its forms, but...
Chuck McGee, the former executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party , was sentenced to seven months in prison and $2,000 in fines on Thursday after pleading guilty to jamming Democratic phone lines during the 2002...
