Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney vetoed a bill on Monday that would have expanded access to emergency contraceptives . The move was symbolic since the bill passed the Massachusetts House and Senate with enough votes to override...
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California Attorney General Bill Lockyer released a title and summary for the proposed California Marriage Amendment Monday, opening the door for supporters of the document to begin gathering the hundreds of thousands of signatures needed to...
Muslim extremist Mohammed Bouyeri , who confessed to the November 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh , was sentenced to life in prison, the harshest possible sentence, on Tuesday in Amsterdam. Bouyeri said...
Japan, Brazil, Germany and India, known collectively as the G-4 nations, and the African Union reached an agreement Monday to present a single resolution for the UN Security Council expansion . According to Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura...
US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) , speaking before the conservative Heritage Foundation on Monday, called for a "comprehensive law" to punish those who leak sensitive government...
A video released Monday obtained by AP shows the Iraqi Special Tribunal questioning former officials of Saddam Hussein's regime, including Ali Hassan al-Majid , known as "Chemical Ali" for his alleged role in gassing the...
The head of the Arab League on Monday endorsed a definition of terrorism slated for inclusion in a long-stalled UN treaty that many Arab states oppose. The proposal would define terrorism as "the targeting and...
With the Senate stalled on a vote for the controversial nomination of John Bolton as the US Ambassador to the United Nations, President Bush may install him via recess appointment before the...
According to a statement made by his defense team Monday, Saddam Hussein has requested a meeting with former US attorney general Ramsey Clark . The request, not yet answered by the Iraqi Special Tribunal , expresses...
US military judge Lieutenant Colonel Richard Anderson sentenced National Guard soldier Dustin Berg to 18 months in prison late Monday after he pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the deadly shooting of an Iraqi police officer. Berg...
