US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has canceled plans to fly to Germany in February to attend the Munich Conference on Security Policy , giving rise to speculation that the cancellation is connected with a war...
Iraq's interim defense minister said Friday that the government would arrest prominent Iraqi National Congress party leader Ahmad Chalabi after the end of the Muslim festival of Eid on Sunday for maligning him and the...
The US Commission on Civil Rights , newly reconstituted with the addition of a new Republican chairman and another Republican appointee , has removed from its website a controversial staff report highly critical of the civil...
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said Friday that he would be willing to call a national election over the issue of same-sex marriage, the subject of pending legislation in the Canadian House of Commons where Martin presides...
Updating a report from earlier today in JURIST's Paper Chase, Federal Communications Chairman Michael Powell has now announced his resignation from the Commission. In a statement released in Washington, he said: Having completed a bold and aggressive agenda, it...
AP is reporting that FCC officials have confirmed that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell will announce his resignation from the Commission Friday. A publicly-unconfirmed report of a possible announcement was carried early this morning in the...
Danish authorities have charged five soldiers - an intelligence officer and four military policemen - with "incorrect treatment" of Iraqi prisoners held in southern Iraq, Danish news agency Ritzau reported Friday. Denmark has 500 troops in the...
Inaugural address, President George W. Bush, January 20, 2005. Excerpt:Across the generations we have proclaimed the imperative of self-government, because no one is fit to be a master, and no one deserves to be a slave. Advancing these ideals is...
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, not seen at public events since mid-October, looked frail at Thursday's inaugural but administered the presidential oath in a strong voice without need of any assistance. Rehnquist, 80 and ailing after undergoing treatment for throat...
Written answers to questions posed by Senate Judiciary Committee members in connection with the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, January 19, 2005 . Review answers to questions by Senators Biden, Coburn, Durbin (Part I;II),...
