The US Senate has approved a long-term renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act by a vote of 89-10 . The vote was expected after the Senate approved amendments...
The US Senate has voted to accept changes to legislation that would renew the USA PATRIOT Act , setting the stage for a final vote Thursday to authorize the renewal legislation. In one...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in four consolidated cases challenging the Texas congressional redistricting plan approved in 2003 which helped Republicans gain six seats in the US...
A scheduled UN General Assembly vote on a draft resolution to create a new UN Human Rights Council has been delayed after the US rejected the proposal . US Ambassador to the...
The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that plaintiffs in a patent-tying antitrust action under Section 1 of the Sherman Act must prove that the defendant has market power as part of its affirmative...
The Council of Europe said Wednesday that an investigation into allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency operated secret prisons in Europe revealed no "smoking gun" evidence that proved the existence of the prisons. COE...
US District Judge Federico Moreno ruled Tuesday that the US Coast Guard acted unreasonably when it sent 15 Cubans back home after their boat reached an abandoned bridge in January and said that the Cubans had reached...
Saddam Hussein admitted in court Wednesday that he had ordered the trial of a group of Shiites who were executed under his regime in the 1980s and that he had ordered that their land be confiscated,...
Canadian Federal Court judge Marshall E. Rothstein , nominated to replace Justice John Major on the Supreme Court of Canada , was questioned by a parliamentary committee in televised hearings Monday, the first...
AP is reporting that the South Dakota House of Representatives has given final approval to a bill that would ban nearly all abortions in the state. The state Senate approved the abortion ban earlier this week....
