US Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) is expected to plead guilty to at least one criminal charge stemming from his involvement with lobbyist Jack Abramoff , Republican officials announced Thursday. Ney is expected to admit to...

The US Senate Armed Services Committee voted 15-9 Thursday to send a bill authorizing military commissions drafted by Republican Senators John Warner, Lindsey Graham and John McCain to the full Senate for consideration...

Under Fire: Hezbollah's Attacks on Northern Israel, Amnesty International, September 14, 2006 . Read the...

A Missouri judge ruled Thursday that a state law requiring voters to show a Missouri-issued photo identification at the polls violates the state constitution because it is "an...

The Rwandan government Thursday threatened to stop working with the UN-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) because it believes the ICTR employs genocide suspects. Rwanda pointed to the ICTR's pressure on...

The US Senate unanimously approved a port security bill Thursday that would require the government to install radiation-detection devices at US ports and to test the feasibility of scanning US-bound cargo overseas. Senators nonetheless...

A New York appeals court Thursday granted the request of former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso to delay the trial in a civil lawsuit filed by the state over the $187.5 million compensation...

US officials Thursday released two Kuwaiti men who had been held for four years at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, after the military announced their intended transfer over the...

The Bush administration said Thursday that the US Senate was "trying to play politics" by putting off a vote on the status of John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations . Senator Lincoln Chafee...

An Indian court in Mumbai convicted a fifth man Thursday in connection with the 1993 Mumbai bombings , a series of attacks which killed 257 people and injured over 700 others in India's financial center. The court found...