AP is reporting that the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled that a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage can be placed on the ballot for voter approval,...
The first federal trial relating to insurance coverage for property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina begins Monday in Gulfport, Mississippi. In the lawsuit against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company , a Mississippi homeowner is...
US Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) , chairman of the House Intelligence Committee , said that the Bush administration may have violated the law by failing to brief the committee on intelligence activities, in a May 18 letter...
Iraqi Interior Ministry investigations into Iraqi police operations have revealed over 400 incidents of police misconduct, "including the rape of female prisoners, the release of terrorism suspects in exchange for bribes, assassinations of police officers and participation in insurgent...
Twenty-five independent and opposition newspapers in Egypt refrained from publishing on Sunday in a pre-planned strike designed to protest the lack of legal protection afforded to journalists as reflected in a draft press law...
The US Department of Homeland Security resumed its repatriation program for illegal immigrants from Mexico Friday with a flight carrying 67 people to Mexico City. This is the third straight summer that the...
US Department of Justice lawyers said Friday in court documents that Guantanamo Bay detainees may have used paper provided by lawyers to plan the three suicides that occurred at the prison last...
Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters in Mexico City Saturday ahead of a mass rally that voting fraud caused his official loss to ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon [campaign...
The US Defense Department has announced that three US servicemen have been charged with rape and murder and a fourth has been charged with dereliction of duty in connection with the March 12 rape and murder of an Iraqi...
UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith confirmed Saturday that three British bankers charged in the US with wire fraud in connection with the Enron scandal will be extradited and tried in the United...