Canadian Minister of State Joe Comuzzi resigned from the government Liberal cabinet Tuesday hours before a scheduled parliamentary vote on a controversial same-sex marriage bill . Comuzzi, Minister of State for Northern Ontario, informed Prime Minister...
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The US Department of Justice has formally asked a federal judge to impose $14 billion in penalties on cigarette companies in a massive racketeering trial. The request made late Monday elaborates on smoking cessation proposals made earlier...
Egyptian opposition presidential candidate Ayman Nour pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of forgery as hundreds outside the courthouse protested his trial as a attempt to eliminate any rivals to current President Hosni Mubarak . The...
The Supreme Court of Canada Tuesday ruled unanimously that Rwandan Leon Mugesera , accused of inciting genocide, must be deported from Canada. In 1992 Mugesera gave a speech in Rwanda encouraging Hutus to kill Tutsis,...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday upheld civil contempt of court findings against four reporters unwilling to reveal their sources for articles about Los Alamos nuclear scientist...
The US Senate on Tuesday passed a controversial energy bill giving large sums of money to industry in incentives and pushing for more efficient use of energy through renewable resources. Republican and Democrats came together to pass the...
A jury has found former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy not guilty on charges of wire and mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, and violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act . Scrushy was the first CEO to be charged...
The US Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to review for the third time a 19-year old abortion case. In 1994 the Court held that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) could be used to challenge anti-abortion blockades...
Insurgents struck the convoy of Dhari Ali al-Fayahd with a suicide car bomb on Tuesday, killing the senior member of Iraq's parliament along with his son and three bodyguards. Al-Fayahd, a Shiite in his 80s who was misidentified as...
US Army Corps of Engineers' top contracting official Bunnatine Greenhouse testified Monday at a hearing before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee that after "exhausting all internal avenues" she had to "disclose to appropriate...
