Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Thursday offered Democrats a compromise over judicial nominees that would allow appellate court nominations to be voted on but would retain the filibuster for district court nominees. Under...
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A UK businessman was convicted on Wednesday of attempting to aid terrorists for selling a missile launcher to an informant claiming he was going to attack the US. Hemant Lakhani, a British citizen from India, was found guilty on...
As briefly reported on JURIST Wednesday evening, the US House late Wednesday voted to reverse GOP ethics rules on investigating House members that had divided the House Ethics Committee since the rules were approved in...
The UK House of Lords on Thursday upheld an appeals court ruling that the creation of "designer babies" to treat siblings with genetic disorders was allowed. Five law lords unanimously ruled that the Human...
The US Army is planning to issue a revised interrogations manual that will expressly limit techniques used at Abu Ghraib prison that drew outrage when publicly revealed. Army officials on Wednesday said that the...
Food services corporation Sodexho has agreed to an $80 million settlement with thousands of black employees who had sued the company claiming they were routinely discriminated against. The settlement, reached Wednesday, requires Sodexho to...
Iraqi lawmakers have approved a partial Cabinet for the country's interim government after months of delay over the final list. Incoming Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari submitted a list that included 27 ministers and 5 acting ministers, which...
A day after the BBC published a leaked document appearing to contain part of the UK Attorney General's advice to the Prime Minister on the legality of the Iraq war, 10 Downing Street Thursday released the...
Mexican President Vicente Fox announced in a nationwide TV broadcast Wednesday night that he had accepted the resignation of Mexican Attorney General Rafael Macedo De La Concha. De La Concha had been at...
The United States Wednesday formally indicated its opposition to the reappointment of International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei to a third term, citing his stances on Iran's nuclear program and nuclear inspections in Iraq...
