Mikey Weinstein, a graduate of the US Air Force Academy (USAFA) filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday claiming senior academy officials illegally forced Christianity upon him. Weinstein, who is Jewish, said the USAFA violated cadets'...
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Former Russian atomic energy minister Yevgeny Adamov intends to appeal a Swiss court ruling to extradite him to the United States, a spokesman for the Swiss Federal Justice Department said Thursday. Last week, a Swiss court ruled ...
President Bush defended his latest pick for the US Supreme Court on Tuesday after some leading conservatives questioned the judicial philosophy of White House counsel Harriet Miers . Bush told reporters that Miers...
The Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) urged Indonesia on Tuesday to study the cases of about 100 prisoners who may have been overlooked in a sweeping grant of amnesty to more than 2,000 members of the Free Aceh...
Canadian holding company Ravelston Corp. will plead not guilty to US fraud charges alleging the company participated in a scheme to swindle more than $32 million from US-based Hollinger International . Ravelston, the holding company of former Hollinger...
Belgium has issued an international arrest warrant for Hissene Habre , the former leader of Chad , lawyers said Thursday. Habre, rumored to be in exile in Senegal, is wanted for crimes against humanity that were allegedly...
Lawrence A. Franklin , an analyst for the US Department of Defense, plans to plead guilty to charges that he provided classified information to an Israeli official and a pro-Israeli lobbying group, according to the US...
Missouri Judge Charles Atwell has issued a further temporary restraining order against Missouri's abortion law , the second TRO to be issued since the law was signed eleven days ago. Atwell said a provision allowing...
Influential Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has denied reports that he will issue a fatwa , or religious edict, telling Shiite Muslims to vote "yes" in the upcoming referendum on the Iraqi constitution [English translation;...
The rate of illegal immigration into the United States has increased despite tighter security measures in place since the September 11 terror attacks, but only at a pace that parallels the rate of economic growth, according to a report...
