The US Senate voted 53-38 Monday on a cloture motion limiting debate on a joint resolution expressing its lack of confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales , effectively stopping the resolution...
The trial of former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member James Ford Seale , accused of kidnapping and killing two black men in Mississippi in 1964, began Monday. Seale, now 71 years old, was originally arrested in 1964 on...
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and new French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Wednesday that they both back proposals for a limited constitutional treaty that would amend the...
The US House of Representatives passed two measures Thursday that would require stricter regulation of lobbying practices. The Lobbying Transparency Act , which passed 382-37 , would amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995...
More than one hundred Muslim extremists belonging to the group al-Jihad have been released from Egyptian prisons over the last two weeks, according to Egyptian police on Monday. The prisoners, many of whom had been held for...
Prominent Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari was formally charged with plotting to overthrow the Iranian government by organizing a network "against the sovereignty of the country," according to Iranian television Monday. Esfandiari, director of the Middle East...
Lawyers for the US government argued for the extradition of Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri in a hearing before a London court Thursday. Al-Masri is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in...
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held elections to its 47-member Geneva-based panel on Thursday, with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia defeating Belarus for the two available Eastern European...
US President George W. Bush issued an executive order Monday requesting that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US departments of Agriculture, Energy, and Transportation cooperate to begin the regulation of vehicle emissions by the...
US Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty announced Monday that he will resign from his post as second-in-line at the Department of Justice (DOJ) as early as the end of the summer, or when a successor...
