Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) has posted disparaging material about Texas DA Ronnie Earle and his case against DeLay on his congressional campaign website. The website, funded by DeLay’s re-election committee and...

A draft of new Australian terror laws leaked to the Web by Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister Jon Stanhope includes severe provisions, including a jail sentence of up to 7 years for promoting “ill will” or...

An official of Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission said late Saturday that turnout in the country's referendum on the draft Iraqi constitution was "no less than 61%", and that more than 66% of voters cast...

Former president of Ecuador Lucio Gutierrez was arrested Friday evening upon his return to the Pacific coast city of Manta. Gutierrez, 48, was arrested on an order that he posed a threat to national security; he was...

A top UN expert has accused coalition forces in Iraq of purposefully denying food and water to civilians as a means of driving out insurgent strongholds. Jean Ziegler , UN special rapporteur on food rights, told reporters Friday...

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a temporary stay late Friday blocking a lower federal court order allowing prison officials in Missouri to transport a pregnant inmate to a medical facility for an abortion. A...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff and top advisor Karl Rove testified for a fourth and final time Friday before a grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame [Wikipedia...

Polls closed in Iraq at 5PM local time (10 AM ET) Saturday after a day of voting in the country's constitutional referendum marked by relatively little violence and a higher Sunni turnout than was seen in...

The White House announced Friday that it will bring in former Texas Supreme Court justices to highlight the qualifications of Texas native and US Supreme Court associate justice nominee Harriet Miers ....

Iraqis prepared to go the polls Saturday to cast ballots in a critical referendum on a draft constitution the terms of which were only finalized earlier this week at the end...