The US Senate voted 51-49 Wednesday afternoon to allow oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge . The Senate defeated an amendment that would have removed the refuge drilling provision from next...
CBC News is reporting that Ripudaman Singh Malik has been found not guilty on all charges stemming from the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people and resulted in the longest and...
Lakeland, Florida's Second District Court of Appeal Wednesday refused to block the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, which is currently scheduled to be removed Friday afternoon. The court denied a request by Schiavo's...
California Judge Alfred A. Delucchi Wednesday denied Scott Peterson's request for a new trial and upheld the jury recommendation that Peterson be sentenced to death. Scott Peterson was...
Russell G. Redenbaugh , the longest-serving member of the US Commission on Civil Rights , resigned from the panel Tuesday, citing irresponsible spending in pursuit of partisan agendas and saying the commission should be shut down. Redenbaugh,...
Reuters is reporting that President Bush will pick Federal Communications Commission member Kevin Martin to serve as the new head of the agency. Current Chairman Michael Powell resigned in January and plans to...
AP is reporting that the US House has approved an $81.4 billion emergency spending package for combat and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan....
Army 1st Lt. Jack Saville was sentenced to 45 days in a military prison Tuesday for his role in forcing three Iraqi civilians into the Tigris River. Saville's court-martial began earlier in the day after Saville pleaded...
According to a report in Wednesday's New York Times, military officials have said that at least 26 prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan have been concluded to be or are suspected of being the result of acts of criminal...
Riggs Bank , Citigroup , Bank of America and six other banks helped former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet create a secret network of accounts to hide assets from US examiners and international prosecutors,...
