Members of the family of Emmett Till , a 14-year-old black youngster killed after whistling at a white woman in 1955, are vehemently opposing the FBI's plan to exhume the boy's body . Two suspects in the...
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Air Force investigating constitutionality of religious activities at Academy
Acting Air Force Secretary Michael L. Dominguez , announced Tuesday that the Pentagon will investigate reported religious activities at the Colorado Springs United States Air Force Academy to determine if the climate there respects the Establishment...
Families of UK soldiers killed in Iraq demand inquiry into war's legality
The UK-based group Military Families Against the War delivered a letter of claim to Prime Minister Tony Blair Tuesday demanding a full independent public inquiry into the deaths of their relatives and the...
The Navajo Nation president Sunday veteod a proposal that would have banned same-sex marriages on the tribal reservation. The measure setting various restrictions on marriage, including a same-sex marriage ban, was unanimously approved last month by the...
UPDATE ~ Chalabi named to deputy prime minister post in new Iraq cabinet
Following up on a story reported Thursday on JURIST, prominent Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi was named deputy prime minister and acting oil ministry chief in the Cabinet approved Wednesday by the interim national assembly...
President Bush Wednesday signed legislation giving legal protection to developers of technologies designed to enable viewers to "self-censor" portions of DVD movies that they deem inappropriate for viewing by others or themselves. S. 167, the Family Entertainment and Copyright...
Italian prosecutors ask judge to charge Berlusconi for corruption in TV deal
Italian prosecutors in Milan Tuesday asked a judge to order Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and 12 others to stand trial on corruption charges relating to alleged fraud, tax evasion and money laundering in connection with a TV rights...
A Chilean court Monday freed a portion of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet's previously-frozen assets to allow the ex-dictator to pay five years of back taxes. Judge Sergio Munoz froze the assets last year after finding that...
The Justice Department and the SEC are close to announcing a settlement with bankrupt cable television provider Adelphia Communications Corp. over the company's accounting issues. Under the terms of the settlement, Adelphia would...
Family, Euro governments balk at US death penalty bid for Moussaoui
Francois Roux, a French lawyer advising Aicha El Wafi, the mother of indicted US terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, the French citizen who earlier this week pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy stemming from the September 11th terrorist attacks,...