The Republican leaders of two key Congressional committees said Thursday that they would not undertake direct probes of the president's NSA warrantless surveillance program . The US House Intelligence Committee said it would conduct a...
BBC News is reporting that the UK House of Commons has voted to include the glorification of terrorism as a criminal offense in the proposed Terrorism Bill , overturning the House of Lords on...
Previously unpublished photographs and video depicting alleged abuse of prisoners by US personnel at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison were shown on Australian television Wednesday. In an effort to expose "the extent of the horror...
A Jordan military court on Wednesday sentenced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , the alleged head of al Qaeda in Iraq, and eight other men to death for conspiring to attack several sites in Jordan with explosives and toxic chemicals....
Saddam Hussein on Tuesday told the Iraqi High Criminal Court - formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal - that he was on hunger strike in protest at the way chief judge Ra'uf Rasheed...
Members of the UN Stabilization Force in Haiti have fired on Haitians protesting election results , killing at least one protester and injuring four. Demonstrators supporting presidential candidate Rene Preval erected flaming roadblocks on...
The Advancement Project , a Washington, DC-based advocacy group, has filed a federal lawsuit challenging election plans for New Orleans , alleging that the plan puts too much emphasis on absentee voting and would keep blacks out...
A long-term renewal of the USA Patriot Act now seems likely as four key Republican senators who had been holding out on approving an extension have reached an agreement with the White...
AP is reporting that four holdout Senate Republicans have reached a tentative agreement with the White House on the renewal of the USA Patriot Act , according to Congressional sources. Several provisions ...
US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday that he is working on legislation that would require court supervision of President Bush's domestic surveillance program ....
