A private bill introduced by former Blair cabinet minister Clare Short that would have given British lawmakers veto power over the Prime Minister's prerogative to declare war failed to progress Friday after the House of Commons could...
US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Michael Garcia has charged and arrested Houston oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt for his involvement in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal . Garcia also charged two...
A report, submitted Thursday to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on the results of an independent UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri links high-ranking Syrian officials...
Senators predicted Thursday that the confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers , scheduled to begin November 7th , will probably not finish before Thanksgiving as hoped for by the White House. Senator Arlen...
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI) , chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee , introduced new legislation Thursday to split the US Ninth Ciruit that would create a new US Twelfth Circuit Court of Appeals covering Alaska,...
The US Sentencing Commission has authorized emergency rules increasing penalties for persons convicted of swapping as-yet-unreleased films over peer-to-peer file sharing networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus. The emergency regulations, which supplement the current guidelines [PDF...
A lawyer who has worked with Saddam Hussein's defense team said Monday that the defense will likely begin pre-trial proceedings on Tuesday by once again requesting a six month delay. The defense is expected to argue that it has...
Susan Wood, former director of the US Food and Drug Administration's Department of Womens Health said Monday that the FDAs refusal earlier this year to consider over-the-counter sales of Plan B , also known as the...
A tax reform interest group chairman says that the Presidents Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform created last January to consider alternatives to the current US income tax system will probably not recommend any major changes to...
UK House Leader Geoff Hoon said Sunday that the government is open to compromise on a proposed addition to the draft Terrorism Bill that would allow police to detain terrorism suspects for...
