A Vietnamese court convicted three Vietnamese-born United States citizens for plotting "terrorist activities" and ordered them deported from the country. Prosecutors said the three Americans, along with four other defendants, had plotted to drop leaflets, jam radio...
South African lawmakers are expected to pass a civil unions bill next week after a parliamentary committee Thursday approved language without specific reference to heterosexual or same-sex couples that recognizes the "voluntary union of two persons, which is solemnized...
South Dakota voters Tuesday rejected a controversial law banning most abortions passed by the state legislature earlier this year. With 818 out of 818 precincts reporting Wednesday, the final unofficial results for Referred...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) delayed a vote on the proposed $82.2 billion merger of BellSouth and AT&T for the third time Thursday. The measure was previously delayed to allow Democrats on the...
US President George W. Bush urged voters at campaign rallies in Montana and Nevada Thursday to vote Republican so that the Senate can continue to confirm key judicial nominees "who will not legislate from the bench."...
The investigation into abuses committed during Argentina's Dirty War has been expanded to include the tenure of former President Isabel Peron , a government minister said Thursday. Peron, the wife of late President...
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday designed to alleviate crowded conditions in California's Los Angeles County jail system . The order from US District Judge Dean D. Pregerson came in response to...
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear four cases Friday, including one where the Court will decide whether the parents of an autistic child must hire a lawyer or whether they can represent themselves...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is keeping 4 acquitted genocide suspects in custody because no other countries were willing to accept them, the court announced Friday. The suspects acquitted by the court...
Mexican President Vicente Fox Thursday criticized the Secure Fence Act of 2006 signed earlier in the day by President Bush. Fox called the legislation to build a 700-mile fence [JURIST...
