The New Hampshire State Senate voted 15-9 Thursday to repeal a 2003 law requiring parental notification for minors seeking an abortion . New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has indicated...
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established and operated secret detention centers in Romania and Poland between 2002 and 2005, according to a report [PDF text; Appendix 1, JPG; Appendix 2, JPG; Appendix 3, PDF; press release;...
US Marines Staff Sgt. Justin Laughner testified Thursday at the Article 32 hearing for Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani , the commander in charge of the Marine battalion implicated in the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians...
The number of death sentences handed down by Chinese courts in the first five months of 2007 has decreased following the implementation of reforms which require all death sentences to receive the approval of the Supreme People's...
The US Senate voted 50-45 late Thursday to reject a cloture motion for the proposed Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 Thursday, falling 10 votes short of limiting the debate...
The US House of Representatives Thursday passed the Stem Cell Enhancement Act of 2007 247-176 , sending it to a recalcitrant President George W. Bush for signature barely two months after its Senate passage ....
The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany Wednesday ruled that a February 2005 referendum approving the construction of a bridge across the Dresden Elbe Valley , a UNESCO World Heritage Site [official...
A Swiss court Thursday cleared nineteen former executives and consultants of the now-defunct Swissair Group of all charges Thursday in connection with their role in the collapse of the national airline that was once nicknamed the "flying...
Canada is stalling the discussion and adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , according to a Thursday statement by Amnesty International (AI) . The declaration was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council...
Dr. Julie Gerberding , Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) , testified before the US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on...
