The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a measure to seize land on Mount Soledad in San Diego to resolve a dispute over whether a 29-foot cross honoring Korean War veterans...
President Bush on Wednesday vetoed a bill to increase federal funding for embryonic stem cell research in what is the first presidential veto during his time in office. The US Senate passed the Stem...
A draft report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday has found that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ...
A British judge has ruled that the parts of the upcoming UK state secrets trial relating to an alleged memo detailing a conversation between US President George Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair describing plans to...
Colorado Gov. Bill Owens signed a bill Tuesday that sets the minimum age for a common-law marriage at 18, or at 16 with judicial approval. The new law is a response...
Adel al-Lami, the director general of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, and 10 other employees have been arrested after al-Lami surrendered to an arrest warrant, Judge Radhi al-Radhi , chairman of the Iraqi High Commission...
Kyrgyz security forces have arrested six men who reportedly confessed to organizing last year's unrest in Uzbekistan that resulted in the massacre of unarmed Uzbek civilians by government troops in Andijan....
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urged Congress to authorize military commissions to try terror detainees following the US Supreme Court's decision last month in...
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has expressed continued concern for the human rights situation in Iraq in its latest bi-monthly report , welcoming the new Iraqi government's "firm commitment to...
Louisiana officials arrested a doctor and two nurses Monday night in connection with patient deaths at the Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans just after Hurricane Katrina hit last year. Though prosecutors have not...
