Former US Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) reported to prison Thursday morning to begin serving his 30-month sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution , a minimum-security prison in Morgantown, West Virginia. The district judge who presided over...
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A 2000 decision by the Canadian Parliament to deny retroactive survivor pension benefits to persons in same-sex relationships was unconstitutional discrimination under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms , the Supreme Court of Canada ...
Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj pleaded not guilty Thursday before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to 37 counts of war crimes, including murder, persecution, and rape. Haradinaj,...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Wednesday criticized a US federal appeals court ruling supporting Congressional legislation denying "enemy combatants" the right to challenge their detentions in federal court. In a...
US Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and 78 other House of Representatives members introduced a bill Wednesday that would crack down on gasoline price gouging by instituting harsh criminal and civil penalties on oil and...
An Oklahoma State House of Representatives committee approved a strict immigration bill on Wednesday for a full vote in the Oklahoma House. The Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007 seeks to prevent illegal...
Attorneys for US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) on Wednesday requested the return of the materials seized from the congressman's office during an 18-hour raid in May 2006 by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official...
An Egyptian judge on Wednesday upheld a prosecutor's decision to freeze the assets of 29 financiers for the Muslim Brotherhood . The Brotherhood is the largest Islamic group in Egypt and, while it is considered...
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) announced a settlement Wednesday in the case against the Progress for America Voter Fund (PFA-VF) for violating campaign finance laws during the 2004 election cycle. The conciliation agreement ...
