Crime in the United States 2004, Federal Bureau of Investigation, October 18, 2005 [reporting that the number of overall violent crimes fell by 1.2 percent and property crimes dropped 1.1 percent; US crime is at a 30-year low and the...
A lawyer who has worked with Saddam Hussein's defense team said Monday that the defense will likely begin pre-trial proceedings on Tuesday by once again requesting a six month delay. The defense is expected to argue that it has...
Dora B. Schriro, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. Robert Douglas Smith, Supreme Court of the United States, October 17, 2005 [ruling that death row inmates do not have an automatic right to a jury trial to determine whether or...
Susan Wood, former director of the US Food and Drug Administration's Department of Womens Health said Monday that the FDAs refusal earlier this year to consider over-the-counter sales of Plan B , also known as the...
A tax reform interest group chairman says that the Presidents Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform created last January to consider alternatives to the current US income tax system will probably not recommend any major changes to...
According to an attorney for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) , prosecutors in his case offered DeLay a deal that would have allowed him to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges, thus avoiding felony charges...
In a White House meeting Monday with visiting Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov , President Bush urged the Libyan government to release five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for intentionally causing an AIDS outbreak at a Benghazi children's hospital...
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has taken the unusual step of criticizing the state case against Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk , calling his prosecution for "public denigration of Turkish identity" contrary to...
After being signed into law by President Bush last April, an overhauled US bankruptcy law goes into effect Monday making it more difficult for consumers to prove that they should be allowed to clear their debts and...
Iranian officials have approved the basic outlines of a "single-urgency" bill providing for the suspension of Iran's voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) . Mahmoud Mohammadi, a member of the Iranian...