Supreme Court's Image Declines as Nomination Battle Looms, Pew Research Center, June 16, 2005 . Excerpt:With an aging Supreme Court possibly facing...

American Interests and UN Reform, US Task Force on the United Nations, June 16, 2005 . Excerpt:Just as the United States...

Burundi on Wednesday approved a United Nations plan to establish a truth and reconciliation commission with a special war crimes chamber to investigate decades of bloody conflict between local Hutus and Tutsis going back to the country's independence in...

A senior Chinese government official said Thursday that China is drafting a new anti-terrorism law . Zhao Yongchen, deputy director of the counterterrorism bureau of the Ministry of Public Security , said the top terrorist...

AFP is reporting that Sunni leaders have announced a compromise with their Shiite and Krd colleagues on Sunni representation on the parliamentary committee charged with drafting Iraq's new permanent constitution. Under the compromise, the Sunnis will get 15 new...

The NAACP , the largest civil rights organization in the United States, has picked Bruce Gordon, formerly an executive with Verizon , to succeed Kweisi Mfume as its leader. An official announcement is expected...

Judge Salem Mahmud Haj Ali was shot to death on Thursday in Mosul along with his driver. He was in charge of a court division in the northern Iraqi city, and is the third judge to be killed [Reuters...

The Task Force on the United Nations , a bipartisan group created by the US Congress in December 2004, released a report Wednesday calling for significant changes in the UN, a number of which echo proposals advanced...

Executive Michael R. Wilson joined UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday in denying that the two had met and discussed an oil contract as suggested in company memo made public earlier this week. The memo said "We...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Duke Energy's challenged construction practices did not violate the Clean Air Act's New Source Rules . The government and several organizations, including the Sierra...