Judge Constance Russell of Fulton County Superior Court in Georgia has ruled that the state's same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional because the state constitutional amendment violates the single-subject rule, which prohibits voters...
Verizon Communications said Tuesday that it did not turn over phone records to the National Security Agency (NSA) , nor was it asked to do so, as was reported last week....
The intelligence committees of the US Senate and House of Representatives will receive a full briefing on the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program , committee chairmen said Tuesday. In preparation for the...
Defense witnesses began testifying Tuesday in the trial of Saddam Hussein , following Monday's reading of formal charges against the deposed Iraqi leader and seven co-defendants for murder, torture, and the illegal arrests of 399...
Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali , who was born in Somalia, resigned her office Tuesday and announced that she will leave the Netherlands in response to the controversy surrounding her naturalization. Ali admitted lying on her 1992 asylum...
New York City has filed a lawsuit against 15 rogue out-of-state gun dealers in an attempt to stymie the influx of weapons into New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. The suit, which was filed in the...
A Russian judge on Tuesday said that Nurpashi Kulayev participated in the September 2004 Beslan school siege , committing an act of terrorism, but has not yet issued a final verdict on Kulayev's guilt....
Federal Communications Commission chief Michael J. Copps said Monday that the agency should investigate the access to domestic customers' phone records allegedly granted to the National Security Agency (NSA) [official...
A US federal judge Friday entered not guilty pleas for former Assistant US Attorney Richard Convertino and US State Department Regional Secretary Officer Harry Raymond Smith III after they stood mute to charges of conspiracy, obstruction of...
Nepal opposition activists rallied late on Friday in Kathmandu to reject a pledge made earlier in the day by King Gyanendra to immediately restore democracy to the country, under the king's...
