The US House of Representatives voted 247-172 Thursday to pass the Legislative Line-Item Veto Act of 2006 . The bill, which President Bush proposed in March, allows the...
Led by Republicans willing to delay a push to abolish the estate tax completely, the US House of Representatives voted Thursday to end taxation for single estates up to $5 million and married couples' estates up to...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Thursday announced the entry into force of an Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or...
Thailand's Election Commission (EC) has determined that the ruling Thai Rak Thai political party broke two election laws by paying groups to run candidates in the annulled April parliamentary elections in...
If allowed to proceed, a lawsuit filed by an Oregon nonprofit organization challenging the NSA domestic surveillance program would impermissibly reveal state secrets, lawyers for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) argued at a Wednesday hearing...
The US Senate Indian Affairs Committee led by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) released its final report Thursday, saying that the connections between former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former...
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak told an Austrian radio station Thursday that European countries could help bring about the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center by accepting some detainees into their...
No evidence has surfaced to disprove the extraordinary rendition allegations of the German man who sued the US Central Intelligence Agency, a German prosecutor familiar with the evidence collected by the German government in the case said Thursday....
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the "fair report" privilege , a legal protection that allows journalists to report on legal allegations made during official proceedings, even if the allegations are false. Solaia...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that Uzbekistan is cracking down on dissent under the pretext of law, alleging Wednesday that two human rights defenders sentenced to nine years in prison on extortion charges...