The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday released Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Naser al-Shaer, detained in August for his membership in Hamas after Hamas members in Gaza seized an Israeli soldier. Thirty-one Hamas lawmakers are still in...
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The US House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday that would prohibit federal courts from awarding attorney's fees to plaintiffs challenging the use of "religious words or imagery" in a public building, a veteran's memorial, or on the official...
The chairman of the US Legal Services Corp. told a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing Tuesday that the LSC board never discussed firing the inspector general now investigating allegations of fraud and waste...
A spokesperson for Patrick Fitzgerald's Office of Special Counsel told AP Tuesday that the investigation of the CIA leak case has cost taxpayers $1.44 million through August 31, and the Government Accountability Office [official...
A California senior assistant attorney general testified Tuesday that the state of California failed to use a backup IV line during the execution of Crips gang co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams which unnecessarily complicated his...
A Russia military court on Tuesday found a Russian army sergeant guilty of abuse of power and sentenced him to four years in jail for beating and torturing a conscript soldier this past New Year's Eve. Russian...
China's Taiwan Affairs Office Wednesday reiterated the Chinese government's open hostility to Taiwan's intent to change its constitution to rename the island the Republic of Taiwan. China has already threatened military action against Taiwan in...
There are too many substantive differences between the Senate and House versions of a bill aimed at approving the NSA domestic surveillance program for legislation to be approved before the November elections, anonymous GOP staffers told...
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to pass the Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 2005 , a bill that its supporters said would provide easier access to federal courts to landowners seeking to...
National Audubon Society et al. v. Dirk Kempthorne, Secretray of the Interior et al., United States District Court District of Alaska, Judge James K. Singleton Jr., September 25, 2006 [stopping the sale of oil and gas rights on approximately 1.7...
