The lower chamber of the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature approved a ban of the morning-after pill on state college campuses Thursday, sending the bill to the state Senate. The proposed legislation would ban University...
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Under new guidelines , US military health professionals are permitted to observe and advise on "lawful" interrogations of detainees, but may not participate in questioning and must report any inhumane treatment. The guidelines, contained in a June...
US District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel has approved the settlement of a civil rights lawsuit between Ford Motor Company and its black employees, granting these employees access to an apprenticeship program. In February, the...
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has asked the Angolan Supreme Court to rule on whether portions of the country's new election laws passed in May are constitutional . Dos Santos has not yet specified...
Croatia on Friday arrested 10 people suspected of committing war crimes against Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s. The arrests were made in eastern Croatia, an area with a large ethnic Serb population and where several former members of the...
The US Federal Trade Commission voted 4-0 Friday to settle an anti-competitive practices complaint against Chevron , allowing it to to acquire the Unocol energy company for $18 billion....
An Italian referendum scheduled for June 12-13 on whether to ease the country's restrictive laws concerning fertility treatment and stem cell research and to redefine the legal language that defines the beginning of life at conception seems...
Rwandan officials announced Friday they will not pursue criminal charges against fugitive Hutu rebels that were aged 14 or younger at the time of Rwanda's 1994 genocide . Children as young as 10 years old took part in...
A panel of three federal judges Thursday reaffirmed an earlier decision to reject a legal challenge to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan , concluding the plan was consistent with federal law and the Constitution. In...
A father and son who were arrested in Lodi, California on charges of lying to the FBI about attending an al-Qaida terrorist training camp, are challenging the government for releasing 2 significantly different affidavits to the media...
