A ban on assault weapons in the city of Denver was affirmed by operation of law on Monday when the Colorado Supreme Court deadlocked in a 3-3 vote with one judge abstaining...
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A lawyer for terror suspect Jose Padilla has filed a motion to suppress evidence he claims the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtained illegally from two sources, one which...
Allegations that members of the US military killed civilians in Iraq should be investigated by the United Nations and an Iraqi-US committee, Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi said Monday. Al-Hashimi, a Sunni,...
President Bush Monday denounced "activist judges" who have struck down state laws banning same-sex marriage as he urged Congress to approve the so-called Marriage Protection Amendment defining marriage as the union of a man...
Serbian members of parliament declared Serbia a sovereign nation Monday, two days after the parliament of Montenegro proclaimed its own independence from the former Serbia-Montenegro union. The breakup marks the final dissolution of what...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in a case that will decide how much public schools can consider race in public school admissions assignments. The Court will hear appeals in Parents Involved in Community Schools...
A Baghdad court has convicted one man but acquitted two others in connection with the abduction and murder of Margaret Hassan , the Irish-born aid worker kidnapped in Iraq in 2004 . Mustafa Salman, charged with aiding...
Several activist groups have sued the attorney general of Indonesia for dropping corruption charges against former President Suharto . Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh dismissed the charges last month because of the former...
The US Defense Department has decided to omit references to common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions , which bans "cruel treatment and torture" and "humiliating and degrading treatment" of detainees, from the new Army...
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said Monday that there may be more arrests in the terror investigation that led Friday to the detention and charging of 12 men and five youths suspected of being...
