The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in US v. Santos 06-1005 , where the Court will consider the definition of proceeds in relation to illegal money laundering schemes under 18...
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom pledged Sunday to keep the city a haven for immigrants, saying that while he cannot stop US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from making arrests, he will try to...
The head of Nigeria's electoral commission announced Monday that ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Umaru Yar'Adua won the country's weekend presidential election by a landslide - taking 24.6 million votes as against...
A spokesperson for New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has said the governor plans to introduce a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the state of New York in...
US Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and US Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) said Sunday they will push legislation in the US Congress that would mandate that states improve their system for reporting mental health records of...
President Bush defended US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday after US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, publicly criticized Gonzales Sunday for his role in...
An arrest warrant issued over the weekend for former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was suspended Monday after police asked the judge presiding over the case to allow them more time to continue their investigation....
Boris Yeltsin , Russia's first elected president and the primary architect of the country's shift towards democratic government in the 1990s, died Monday, according to Russian wire services. Yeltsin was 76 and had a history of health problems,...
A Bangladeshi court issued a warrant Sunday for the arrest of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed who is currently exiled in London. Wajed was stopped from boarding a plane in London Sunday after...
A previously undisclosed report by US Army Major General Eldon Bargewell into the November 2005 killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha found "serious misconduct" on all levels of the...
