The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Will v. Hallock where it will decide whether a plaintiff who sued the federal government for an alleged constitutional violation is barred from suing individual government employees for the same conduct. In the case, the Court heard the appeal of Susan Hallock, whose computer software [...]

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Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) pleaded guilty Monday to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion and promptly resigned from office. Cunningham admitted to taking $2.4 million in bribes in a case that stemmed from an investigation into the sale of his home and became a wide-ranging probe uncovering [...]

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A group of Egyptian jurists known as The Judges Club said in a statement Monday that, due to over 100 irregularities reported by monitoring judges at polling stations, it did not endorse the results of the parliamentary runoff elections. The statement pointed to "aggression and acts of thuggery by supporters of the National Democratic Party [...]

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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has dismissed as "nonsense" allegations by former Iraqi Prime Minister and current parliamentary candidate Iyad Allawi that human rights abuses by Iraqi Shiites are as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein's regime. In an interview with the BBC, Talabani said that no comparison can be made between recent reports of [...]

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