US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said Friday that he would not allow any further floor debate on the controversial asbestos compensation bill unless 60 senators pledged their support...
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The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) in Haiti acknowledged for the first time Friday that the country's February 7 presidential election was tainted by fraud, just one day after awarding the...
US Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) , chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee , said in an interview with the New York Times reported Saturday that he wants to bring the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news...
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office announced Friday that it has begun an investigation of newspaper editor Anna Smirnova whose newspaper Nash Region reprinted controversial caricatures of Muhammad this week as...
In comments after a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations Friday, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld flatly rejected the United Nation's call for the US to shut down its military detention...
Arar v. Ashcroft, United States District Court, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, February 16, 2006 [dismissing case citing "the national security and foreign policy considerations at stake" and held that Maher Arar, as a...
The US Supreme Court Friday scheduled new oral arguments in a whistleblower free speech case where the Court initially deadlocked 4-4. In Garcetti v. Ceballos , a Los Angeles county prosecutor claimed...
AP is reporting that a federal jury has cleared Merck of responsibility in the death of a Florida man who had taken the popular painkiller Vioxx . The painkiller was recalled in 2004 after clinical...
The Georgia House of Representatives approved a bill Friday protecting physicians who assist the state in performing lethal injections. The bill, which overwhelmingly passed the House 157-1, would protect any doctor or medical professional assisting...
US District Court Judge Marcia Cooke on Thursday upheld a previous district court ruling denying bail for alleged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla , agreeing with federal prosecutors who say his history of skipping bail makes him a...
