The Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy on Tuesday ordered the state's 44 Wal-Marts and 4 Sam's Club stores to carry emergency contraception pills at their pharmacies. Previously Wal-Mart only carried the "morning after" pill in Illinois,...
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South Dakota governor Mike Rounds has signed into law a bill limiting protests during funerals. SB 156 was passed in response to recent picketing at the funerals of US soldiers who died in...
Former Nepal prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was released from prison Tuesday in the wake of Monday's ruling by the Nepal Supreme Court declaring the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) set up by Nepal's...
A French court on Tuesday refused to hear a lawsuit launched to prevent a French newspaper from publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have caused protests and violence across the globe. The suit,...
A document released to an Australian commission set up to investigate alleged Australian connections to the oil-for-food scandal Tuesday shows that Saddam Hussein personally assisted the Australian Wheat Board (AWB)...
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was interrogated for four hours Tuesday as part of Chilean Supreme Court judge Orlando Alvarez's process to determine whether he will recommend his extradition to Peru. Fujimori, who fled...
Tuesday's confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito as the 110th justice of the Supreme Court of the United States has predictably prompted mixed reactions. President Bush congratulated Alito in a statement, once again calling him "a...
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire on Tuesday signed into law the landmark gay civil rights act which expands the Washington Civil Rights Act to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination in housing, lending and...
Two judges involved in the Saddam Hussein trial said Tuesday that the real reason for the latest postponement of the hearing was a disagreement among the judges on the Iraqi High Criminal Court - formerly the...
Turkish Justice Minister Cemil Cicek requested Tuesday that a court return Mehmet Ali Agca , the man who shot Pope John Paul II , to prison for at least 11 more months. Agca had...
