President Bush Monday celebrated his administration's anti-abortion record in a telephone address to pro-life marchers demonstrating in Washington DC on the anniversary of the 1972 Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court ruling. Bush told the gathering that...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to respond promptly to allegedly improper e-mail correspondence between former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) and a former congressional page from Louisiana in July 2006,...
Four US federal appeals court nominees requested Tuesday that their names be withdrawn from consideration by the Senate , according to Republican party officials. Each of the nominees, Michael Wallace, William Haynes, William Myers and Terrence Boyle [official...
The Lebanese cabinet Tuesday sent the country's National Assembly a draft plan to establish a UN-supported international tribunal to try suspects accused of assassinating former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. The cabinet approved the...
US Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) announced Tuesday that they have sent the FBI a letter signed by thirty-three members of Congress asking it to release information from...
US Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty announced Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will no longer encourage corporations to turn over confidential records to officials investigating corporate fraud . The new McNulty...
The US House of Representatives Wednesday rejected by a vote of 250-162 a controversial bill that would have mandated medical practitioners to inform women seeking an abortion after 20 weeks of the pain the...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame publicly alleged Wednesday that France supported the 1994 genocide that wracked the African nation. Kagame previously accused the French government of providing training and weapons ...
FBI Director Robert Mueller refused to answer questions Wednesday during an FBI oversight hearing before the US Senate Judiciary Committee about the administration's domestic spying program , saying the...
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Monday requested the California Supreme Court to grant a petition to review an intermediate appellate court's decision to uphold a state law prohibiting same-sex marriage [JURIST news...
