One week after the US House of Representatives voted 379-35 to pass the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act , President Bush signed into law the legislation that will increase by tenfold the maximum...
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Bush signs bill to increase FCC indecency fines
Non-citizens indefinite detention ruling [US DC]
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Judiciary Committee sends flag-burning amendment to Senate floor
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EU lawmaker calls for Guantanamo to be replaced by international tribunal
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Israel High Court orders state to reconstruct part of West Bank barrier
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US government sues to stop New Jersey AG probe of phone records turnover
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UN Security Council approves further extension of Hariri assassination probe
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Chinese reporter sentenced to prison for extortion
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South Korea lobbyist charged with lying to investigators in oil-for-food scandal
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Yemen calls for probe into Guantanamo suicides, calling deaths ‘inhumane’
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Turkmen v. Ashcroft, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judge John Gleeson, June 14, 2006 . Read the...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 11-7 to send to the full Senate a proposed constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the...
A European Union lawmaker calling for the US to close its detention center at Guantanamo Bay suggested Thursday that it should be replaced with an international criminal tribunal to hear the cases of the approximately 450...
Israel's High Court of Justice , the Supreme Court of Israel sitting as a court of first instance in cases regarding state actions, on Thursday ordered the state to take down a five-kilometer section of the West...
The US government has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey against New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber and other New Jersey officials, seeking to stop them seeking...
The UN Security Council on Thursday voted to extend the mandate of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission probing the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri for an...
A Chinese court Thursday sentenced Yang Xiaoging, a reporter for the state-run China Industrial Economy News , to one year in prison after finding him guilty of extortion. Xiaoging wrote articles about official corruption, accusing...
A federal grand jury has handed up another indictment against South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park , charging him Wednesday with lying to the FBI about his role in the adoption of the 1995 UN Security Council Resolution...
Yemeni officials on Thursday called for a second investigation into last week's detainee suicides by one Yemeni and two Saudi Arabians held at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay , saying the deaths exemplify...
