The US Defense Department Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Service Academies released its report Thursday, announcing that, despite some progress, hostile attitudes and inappropriate treatment of women persist at the US...
A US military jury reduced the rank of Pfc. Willie Brand to private, the lowest pay grade in the army, at his sentencing hearing Thursday. In doing so, the jury disregarded the prosecutor's recommendation that Brand be sentenced to...
Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff , indicted by a federal grand jury on bank fraud charges last week, will plead not guilty, according to a statement made by his lawyer Neal Sonnett Thursday. The charges allege he...
The Federal Election Commission voted 6-0 in favor of Reps. Howard Berman (D-CA) and John Doolittle (R-CA) Thursday to allow members of Congress to raise unlimited funds from unions, corporations and other donors...
Sunni Arab negotiators working on Iraq's draft constitution continue to refuse to compromise their demands for a strong central government in Iraq , fearing that federalism will divide the country. While the Supreme Council for...
The Walt Disney Company asked the nonprofit firm Verite to investigate allegations of labor abuse in factories run by its Chinese contractors, according to a statement Friday. Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) [advocacy...
The Hamburg Supreme Court convicted Mounir el Motassadeq Friday of belonging to a terrorist organization and sentenced him to seven years in prison, but acquitted him of being an accessory to the murder of the over 3,000...
In a Tuesday ruling, the Supreme Court of Israel temporarily halted government plans to demolish 30 synagogues and eight Torah academies in the Gaza Strip. The decision was in response to a petition from Elei...
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has decided to pardon Lena Baker , a black maid, 60 years after she was executed for killing a white man, board spokeswoman Scheree Lipscomb said Monday....
Italy has arrested 141 people in an ongoing security sweep , begun expulsion procedures against 701 people, and questioned almost 33,000 people since last month's terrorist attacks in London and Egypt, Italy's Ministry of the Interior [official website,...
