Former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will withdraw his name from the Texas ballot in this fall's congressional elections, a Republican strategist told AP on Tuesday. DeLay's move comes one day after US Supreme Court...
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has begun a criminal investigation into possible fraud stemming from bankruptcy proceedings for Russian oil giant Yukos , according to Tuesday reports from the Itar-Tass news...
Prosecutors in Indonesia are seeking jail terms of up to 15 years for four Islamist militants suspected in the 2005 Bali bombings , which killed two dozen people. The trial of the four suspects began...
The Bush administration and the US Department of Homeland Security are considering plans to change some immigration rules for Cubans with relatives living in the United States in an effort to improve the immigration ...
Pfc. Justin Cross told a US military panel in Baghdad Tuesday that combat stress "crushed" troop morale in Mahmudiya , the area where four soldiers and one former soldier allegedly raped a 14-year old Iraqi girl and...
The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Illinois, seeking to overturn the state's Act to End Atrocities and Terrorism in the Sudan . The Illinois law bars state...
Chilean Judge Jorge Zepeda asked the Santiago Court of Appeals on Monday to strip former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity in a case involving the disappearance of Antonio Llido, a Spanish priest who...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that it will not appeal a federal appeals court decision that invalidated an SEC rule regulating hedge funds, opting instead to focus on drafting new...
The federal trial of David Passaro , a CIA contractor accused of abusing a detainee in Afghanistan , began Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina. Passaro was charged in 2004, and has maintained that...
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said that the US is failing to adequately spread the positive aspects of the "Western idea of democracy," in an address to the American Bar Association at...
