A group of 13 former and current employees filed a $500 million lawsuit Wednesday against the US Department of Commerce alleging that the agency discriminated in its hiring and promoting of employees. The suit, filed by 11 black and two white workers claiming to represent all black employees at the agency in the past 10 [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments on whether the federal government can halt doctors from assisting patients in taking their own lives under an Oregon statute allowing the practice. The justices appeared divided over the issue in Gonzales v. Oregon of how much authority the federal government can exercise over doctors and [...]
A third grand jury previously unrevealed by prosecutors refused to indict former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay last week, according to a written statement released late Tuesday by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle . DeLay has been indicted by two grand juries in the past week, but Earle revealed that prosecutors took their case [...]
Victims of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings are calling for the Indonesian government to immediately execute those in prison for carrying out the attacks. After new coordinated bombings in two tourist areas last Saturday, victims of the earlier explosions are saying that three convicted bombers should have their death sentences carried out immediately, rather than [...]
Two of the six radical Islamic militants interrogated in Bangladesh Wednesday in connection to their role in the simultaneous bombings of three courthouses Monday indicated association with Jamaatul Mujahideen and confessed to targeting the legal system in an effort to intimidate the judiciary into replacing the country's democratic system with Sharia law . According to [...]
Sunni Arab leaders threatened Wednesday to boycott the upcoming referendum on Iraq's draft constitution if US troops do not stop offensive operations in western Iraq. US forces Tuesday launched their second offensive in a week in Iraq's volatile Anbar province at the outset of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. According to Sunni politician Hussein [...]
Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said Wednesday that he plans to change controversial legislation that would grant amnesty to many involved in the 2000 racially-motivated coup . The Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity bill has been the subject of many protests and has even caused military commander Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama to threaten to remove the government [...]
A US District Court judge has struck down a part of California's financial privacy law that places restrictions on banks' ability to sell their customers' private information to their associates. The provision was struck down because a federal law, the Fair Credit Reporting Act , already restricted their ability to sell information to affiliates. The [...]
The Takamatsu High Court in Japan Wednesday upheld a lower court decision to dismiss a lawsuit against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi over his visits to the Yasukuni shrine . The shrine was founded in 1869 and serves as a monument to Japan's war dead, including war criminals, a source of diplomatic friction between China [...]
A Spanish court convicted a former Guantanamo Bay detainee Wednesday and sentenced him to six years in Spanish jail for his involvement in the al Qaeda terror organization. Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed, who hails from the Spanish region of Ceuta in north Africa, was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 and held at Guantanamo Bay for two [...]
