More than 250 people were arrested Friday night in France as rioting spread from the poor suburbs of Paris into the cities of Strasbourg and Rennes. The riots, which began late last week, originated in Parisian ghettos, where jobless...
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Vice President Dick Cheney urged Republican senators during a closed meeting earlier this week to exempt CIA agents from the Senate anti-torture McCain amendment attached to the 2006 defense spending bill. The amendment, approved [JURIST...
President Bush sent a memo to White House staff members Friday announcing mandatory "ethics" briefings next week. The week-long series of "refresher lectures" on general ethics rules and the protection of classified information appears to be in response to...
The landmark Pennsylvania federal trial debating the legality of a school district's decision to teach ninth-grade biology students the theory of anti-evolutionary intelligent design drew to a close Friday. The plaintiffs, eight families in...
Oregon Circuit Judge Joseph Guimond Friday upheld the constitutionality of Measure 36 , an Oregon constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage . Judge Guimond rejected arguments that the Measure, defining marriage as "between one man and...
Lawyers for Jumah Dossari , the Bahraini Guantanamo detainee identified as having made a suicide attempt during an October 15 visit by attorney Joshua Colangelo-Bryan , asked a federal judge Friday to order a...
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. State, Vermont Supreme Court, November 4, 2005.. Read...
A military jury Friday cleared a US Army sergeant of all charges related to his alleged abuse of a prisoner at the US-run Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan . Sgt. Duane Grubb had been charged...
The Vermont Supreme Court Friday ruled that a decision made by former state governor Howard Dean and Vermont's secretary of state to seal 93 boxes of sensitive papers collected during his term was legal. When he...
US Senators Friday confirmed their support for an anti-torture amendment sponsored by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and attached to the 2006 defense spending bill by unanimously re-passing the amendment by voice vote after approving it...
