President Bush suggested Friday in a Chicago news conference that the US Supreme Court had approved the decision to establish a military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by its silence on the...

San Diegans for the Mt. Soledad National War Memorial v. Paulson, Supreme Court of the United States, July 7, 2006 [ordering that a temporary stay against the removal of a monumental memorial cross on city property in San Diego be...

US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy ordered Friday that a temporary stay against the removal of a monumental cross on city property in San Diego be continued until the Ninth Circuit hears an appeal on the cross's...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services , part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, issued a final rule Thursday clarifying proof of citizenship required to apply for Medicaid benefits. The new rule...

President Bush repeated earlier calls for a compromise immigration reform bill that would satisfy the demands of both House and Senate leaders during a press conference in Chicago Friday. After promoting the use...

A court in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg Friday threw out a ban on women teachers wearing religious headscarves . The case originated when Baden-Wuerttemberg passed a law in 2004 forbidding "outward expressions...

Former East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri was again summoned on Friday for questioning on July 20 by the lead prosecutor of East Timor, this time as a suspect, to answer questions in an investigation into the...

Japan circulated a new UN Security Council draft resolution on Friday, tougher than a previous draft resolution circulated earlier this week , that would direct states to take whatever steps necessary to prevent North Korea...

Robert Petit , the Canadian international co-prosecutor for the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal cautioned reporters Friday at a Phnom Penh news conference that the court's investigation process, set to begin Monday, could take...

Rebels in Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rejected an offer of amnesty from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Friday, calling the offer redundant. Museveni promised rebel leader Joseph Kony conditional amnesty...