The US Senate voted Tuesday 57-42 against proceeding with debate on the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act , killing the bill before it reached Senate consideration by falling three votes...

A US Marine Corps commanding officer ordered Tuesday that charges be dismissed against Marine Capt. Lucas McConnell for failing to report the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha . McConnell was granted...

France's National Assembly , the lower house of the French parliament, Tuesday debated a new immigration bill proposing tightened requirements for foreigners seeking to join immigrant relatives in...

Lawyers for Brent Wilkes , a defense contractor connected to disgraced former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham , have subpoenaed 13 members of Congress to testify at Wilkes' October 2 trial. All of the lawmakers, including former House...

The US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday announced an investigation into whether State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard interfered with a fraud investigation related to construction of a new US embassy...

US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell pushed for new and permanent changes to a recently passed temporary surveillance law in a statement to the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. The Protect America Act...

The Communist Party of Nepal - Maoists (CPN-M) announced Tuesday that it is vacating the interim government and boycotting future elections until its demands for parliament to immediately declare the country a federal democratic republic were met....

Two advocacy groups in the Philippines said Tuesday that children are often the victims of extrajudicial killings, citing statistics compiled by Karapatan (The Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights) . The Salinlahi Alliance for...

Iranian-American journalist Parnaz Azima, a reporter for Radio Farda , left Iran Tuesday after months of being held in the country on security-related charges. A spokesperson for Radio Farda's parent service Radio Free...

The Maryland Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled 4-3 that the state's 1973 law banning same-sex marriage is constitutional. In reversing the judgment of the lower Circuit Court, Maryland's highest court...