Fifty-nine percent of Germans are in favor of the new EU Constitution according to a new Infratest poll released just days before the Bundestag , the lower house of the German parliament, votes on the...
The US Department of State said Monday that it will not release internal documents requested by Senate Democrats serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , set to vote Thursday on the nomination of John Bolton...
A federal judge Monday ordered former UN Oil-for-Food inquiry investigator Robert Parton to cease distribution of commission documents subpoenaed by the US House of Representatives International Relations Committee . US District Judge...
Former Philadelphia City Treasurer Corey Kemp was convicted Monday on more than 20 counts for accepting kickbacks during his time in office . The US Department of Justice had initially charged 12 men for corruption...
Cardinal Roberto Tucci, president of Vatican Radio and VR director general Father Pasquale Borgomeo were convicted Monday in an Italian court of polluting the enviroment with high-intensity electromagnetic waves and were handed 10-day suspended jail sentences. A...
Former Walt Disney Company directors Roy Disney and Stanley Gold filed suit against current Disney directors including former Disney CEO Michael Eisner Monday for fraud and breach of duty in connection with the public...
Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed a bill Monday which effectively bans smoking in almost all public places in the tobacco-growing state. The Georgia Smokefree Air Act of 2005 would still allow smoking in bars that...
In a statement issued Monday while visiting Europe for World War II commemorations, President Bush once again urged the Senate to put his judicial nominees to an up-or-down vote . Two of the nominees highlighted in...
Mississippi state Attorney General Jim Hood announced Monday that under the terms of a settlement agreement with the state telecommunications giant MCI will hand over $100M cash to cover back taxes owed by its predecessor,...
William Higgins, holder of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) , filed suit in New York state court Monday in a bid to block the NYSE merging with electronic stock market Archipelago Holdings. The merger...
