AP is reporting that the US Senate has passed legislation designed to shield the firearms industry from lawsuits brought by victims of gun crimes. Democrats had opposed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act , saying...

The US Senate passed a $14.5 billion energy bill Friday, a day after the House approved the same bill praised by the Bush administration as a way to increase domestic energy supplies but criticized by environmental groups...

The UN Human Rights Committee said Friday that the US will be late in submitting a report on its anti-terrorist measures, including the treatment of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay . The UN...

The Italian Senate has approved a number of new anti-terrorism security measures drafted in response to the July 7 London bombings in an effort to reduce the risk of a terrorist...

A new report prepared at the instance of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and released Friday criticizes the Sudanese government for its inaction in allowing sexual violence in the turbulent Darfur region...

US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts will begin facing Senate Judiciary Committee questions September 6, congressional officials said Friday. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Committee, is expected to officially announce the date later...

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been questioned about the repression of a Shiite uprising in 1991 that occured after US and coalition forces pushed the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, Iraqi Special Tribunal ...

Rwandan authorities have begun releasing 36,000 inmates, the majority of whom have confessed to taking part in the country's 1994 genocide . The cabinet approved the provisional mass release on Wednesday in a bid to free...

Ugandans voters overwhelmingly endorsed democratic reform in a Thursday referendum on whether to restore multi-party politics after a nearly 20 year absence. The final results were still being calculated Friday, but early returns from 15 percent of...

Army mechanic Sgt. Kevin Benderman was acquitted Thursday of desertion from a unit heading for duty in Iraq, but was convicted of a lesser charge related to intentionally evading deployment. After applying for conscientious-objector status [PDF DOD...