The US Senate Wednesday morning voted 49-48 against holding an up-or-down vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment , rejecting a motion to invoke cloture . Though the Senate voted to continue...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday extended a deadline he set for the governing Hamas party to accept a "national reconciliation" document which would establish a Palestinian state and implicitly recognize Israel....
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a company cannot bring a claim under s.1962(c) of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) alleging that a competitor fraudulently failed to collect...
AP is reporting that US Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona has been sentenced to 90 days hard labor without confinement and a reduction in rank for abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison ....
The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) - formerly known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal - has issued two arrest warrants for former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz for crimes against humanity, according to...
The US Supreme Court on Monday held that First Amendment protections do not extend to government employees for comments made while performing their official duties, even when the employee is acting to expose alleged...
The US Senate has approved the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 by a vote of 62-36 . The bill would set millions of illegal immigrants on a path to potential citizenship and...
Following an order from the British Information Commissioner, UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith on Thursday made public additional details concerning the process surrounding the release of his March 7, 2003 memorandum expressing some...
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that police can enter a home without a warrant when they have not knocked or announced their presence if they have an objectively reasonable basis to believe...
A group of former Guantanamo Bay detainees were found not guilty by a Kuwaiti court Sunday of belonging to al Qaeda and fighting a friendly state. The five detainees, arrested in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, were...
