US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a Pentagon news conference Tuesday that the US government had gone to great length and enormous expense to ensure that terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay were well-treated and...
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced Tuesday that his administration is planning to draft a bill which would effectively disband the right-wing paramilitary fighters supported by umbrella group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) ....
A New Jersey appellate court Tuesday ruled against seven same-sex couples who had argued that they were entitled to marry under the state constitution . The court ruling upheld a lower court decision that had concluded that...
Financial filings released Tuesday show that Bill and Hillary Clinton have finally paid off the legal bills incurred during Whitewater and the impeachment scandal. Lucrative book contracts and numerous speaking arrangements helped settle their debt, the...
A US federal court judge Tuesday renewed for a fouth time a restraining order prohibiting former UN Oil-for Food Independent Committee Inquiry investigator Robert Parton from releasing confidential documents to the two US congressional committees...
A Romanian court Tuesday freed the militant leader of the Mineworkers Confederation of Romania, a man who led the 1991 miners' riot that overthrew Romania's first post-communist government. Miron Cozma had served seven...
Former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor was approved for a permanent seat on the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday by a 53-45 floor vote in the US Senate. Pryor, who was temporarily seated...
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning filed an appeal Thursday contesting a federal judge's May 12 ruling against the Nebraska same-sex marriage ban. The appeal was expected as Bruning had previously announced in a press release that...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said Thursday that the trial of Saddam Hussein will commence in a "matter of months" and Hussein may face the death penalty if convicted in a fair trial. The death sentence...
Despite increasing pressure to close the US military prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that the government did not have any plans to shut down the facility...
