President Bush made his second significant recess appointment this term Tuesday, installing Peter Flory as an assistant secretary of defense in a move marked by a one-sentence release and much less controversy than the appointment...
The Iraqi constitutional committee made no progress Tuesday in resolving some basic issues holding up the charter, raising further doubt that the constitution will be finished by the promosed August 15 deadline. On Sunday the committee asked...
The London Metropolitan Police said Tuesday that since the July 7 bombings , religious hate crimes have increased almost six times from a year ago during the same period. Reported incidents increased from 40 last year...
A new report by Amnesty International says Iraqi insurgents have "fail to abide by even the most basic standards of humanitarian law." In Cold Blood: Abuses by Armed Groups calls for insurgents to stop targeting...
The USDA Forest Service said Tuesday it hopes to salvage a Bush administration initiative to ease logging restrictions in the Northwest by correcting problems cited by federal judge Marsha Pechman. On Monday, Pechman struck down an administration...
US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts promised Tuesday to adhere to established rulings if given the opportunity to serve on the highest court. In his 84-page response to a Senate Judiciary Committee ...
Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, a federal appeals court has upheld a lower court decision against Canadian Research in Motion Ltd. , the company that produces the popular BlackBerry e-mail pagers. The US Court...
US-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signed into law by President Bush on August 2, 2005 [law ending tariffs against US products in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and Honduras, and ensuring those countries duty-free access...
New US UN ambassador John Bolton met with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Tuesday to present his credentials and deliver his letter of appointment by President Bush . Bolton is known for his blunt style, his entrenched...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales marked the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Tuesday by saying that the Bush administration is working to extend parts of the act...