Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi are continuing their bid for Japan to become a member of the UN Security Council as part of ongoing discussion...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Thursday that the Department of Justice will fight to overturn Wednesday's federal court ruling that the Pledge of Allegiance with the words "under...
Missouri Governor Matt Blunt signed legislation Thursday authorizing lawsuits against anyone who helps teenagers get abortions in violation of Missouri's parental consent law. The law is aimed partly at preventing teens from getting abortions...
Robert Parton, a former investigator for the Independent Inquiry Committee into the now defunct UN Oil-for-Food program , has reached a deal with the United Nations and the US Congress under which Congress...
The latest Guantanamo Bay hunger strike has expanded to include 131 participants and is now at its largest point since the protest began a month ago, a military official said Thursday. According to the military, the...
US soldiers serving in Iraq relied on techniques they remembered from movies to interrogate prisoners, according to documents released Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union as part of its ongoing Freedom of Information Act requests [ACLU...
US Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) said Thursday that an unnamed Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that identified Mohammed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 9/11 attacks , and was...
The US Department of Justice and the special counsel investigating the leak of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame advised Congress earlier this week to block legislation that would force the adminstration to...
The US Department of Justice said Thursday it had dropped its voting rights lawsuit against Boston after city officials agreed to provide voting materials such as ballots and registration notices in Spanish, Chinese...
A UN spokesperson in Iraq confirmed Thursday that the UN plans to distribute five million copies of Iraq's draft constitution to Iraqis before a national referendum on the charter on October 15, but indicated that printing...
