Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives are planning to hold an additional 19 hearings on immigration in 12 states across the country to garner support for strict border controls they...
Senior managers in the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians (OST) allegedly violated ethics rules by maintaining an improper relationship with an accounting firm that won more than $6.5 million in contract work related to...
US officials Thursday denied that the US had violated British air transport safety regulations in routing "smart bombs" to Israel through the UK, despite concerns expressed by UK Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett earlier this...
Former President of Malawi Bakili Muluzi was released Thursday following a brief arrest, during which he was charged with 42 counts of corruption, fraud and theft, according to Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director Gustave Kaliwo. Kaliwo...
Turkish author and journalist Perihan Magden was acquitted Thursday for defending an objector who was sentenced to four years in prison for refusing to wear his military uniform. The law in Turkey requires any man...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled in favor of the mother of a Chechen man who claimed that Russia failed to investigate the death of her son as required by Article 2 of...
At a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing Thursday, Democrats renewed their fight against the nomination of John Bolton as the permanent US ambassador to the United Nations . To avoid initial opposition...
The US Marshals Service has released statistics showing that the number of threats on judicial employees, including judges, increased 63 percent from 2003 to 2005, from 584 threats to 953. So far this year, marshals have investigated...
President Bush signed a bill Thursday to reauthorize expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) . The provisions would have lapsed in 2007, but the reauthorization extends them through...
The entertainment industry and Sharman Networks announced Thursday that they had reached a settlement regarding Sharman's Kazaa software, which allowed illegal Internet downloads of music and movies . The company agreed to pay...