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US officials announced Wednesday they will no longer require a new UN declaration on women's issues to take an anti-abortion position. The current meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women , held to review progress...

Stephen Bainbridge :"I'm increasingly opposed to the death penalty on both pragmatic and moral grounds, but I nevertheless found much to agree with in Justice Antonin Scalia's scathing dissent from the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision striking down the...

A US District Court judge has refused to block new federal campaign finance regulations that an abortion rights interest group claims will hinder its ability to participate in political campaigns, and by extension impinges upon its First Amendment rights....

Ten years after the world's nations pledged to achieve equality for women in the Beijing Declaration , the progress meeting organized by the UN Commission on the Status of Women started Monday with controversy over American insistence...

A controversial bankruptcy bill first introduced in 1997 goes up for consideration again Monday in the US Senate . The bill aims to limit the ability of consumers to declare bankruptcy and have their debts nullified. Republican Senator...

Two medical clinics have asked the Kansas Supreme Court to intercede in secret investigation by Attorney General Phill Kline seeking medical records of females seeking late-term abortions. Kline wants the records in an attempt to...

KGW.com in Portland, OR, is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Bush administration challenge to Oregon's Death with Dignity Act , which allows assisted suicide. The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved S. 256, the Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Prevention Act of 2005 , a measure that would make it tougher for consumers to erase debt in bankruptcy proceedings, but battle lines...

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the US Senate Committee on Intelligence Wednesday that the FBI remains concerned about attacks by al-Qaida and related terrorist groups, particularly the threat of attack from covert operatives already inside the US,...

In a speech delivered to the National Press Club Tuesday, Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson accused the federal judiciary of usurping legislative and executive power, called for the Senate leadership to force votes on...