AP is reporting that the speaker of Iraq's National Assembly has said that the draft constitution has been submitted ahead of the midnight deadline, but that there remain "pending points" that parties will try to resolve...

AP is reporting that a Shiite member of the committee writing the Iraqi constitution has said that a draft has been completed and will be submitted to the National Assembly shortly, despite ongoing Sunni reservations about...

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced Monday that the state has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) . The complaint alleges...

Eric Rudolph , who pleaded guilty in April to the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and later bombings at an abortion clinic and gay nightclub in Atlanta, Monday was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences plus 120...

Egypt's Supreme Committee of Presidential Elections has rejected any international assistance in monitoring the upcoming presidential elections, the first multi-candidate election in Egypt's history. Committee spokesperson Osama Attawiya told the Kuwait News Agency Monday that under Egypt's...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Monday rejected a request by prosecutors to speed up the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic . Milosevic's trial on charges of genocide,...

AP is reporting that a Sunni member of Iraq's constitutional committee has said that he doubts that a deal can be reached on an Iraqi constitution "in the next few hours." As previously reported...

Reuters is reporting Monday that a draft of Iraq's constitution calls the country a "republican, parliamentarian, democratic and federal" state, but fails to detail the extent of the federalism. The vague language may indicate a compromise...

CT v. Spellings, State of Connecticut, August 22, 2005 [complaint alleging that the federal No Child Left Behind Act is illegal because it requires states to provide programs and expensive testing without furnishing adequate funding and asks that the judge...

Iranian political prisoner, dissident journalist Akbar Ganji , has ended the hunger strike he began on June 11 to protest the conditions of his confinement, his wife confirmed Monday. The confirmation follows an earlier announcement from...