The US Department of Justice Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Missouri, alleging that contrary to federal law it had failed to take steps to remove the names of deceased and otherwise ineligible voters from its electoral...

Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, November 20, 2005 [directing the transfer of custody of "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla, a US citizen, from the US Defense Department to the US Attorney General for the purpose of pursuing criminal charges against...

The US Commerce Department said on Tuesday that it will comply with a NAFTA ruling to reduce duties it placed on softwood lumber from Canada although emphasizing its disagreement with the ruling. According to...

Two men have been charged for leaking a UK government memo that led to a newspaper report Tuesday that said UK Prime Minister Tony Blair had talked President Bush out of bombing the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera...

Organizers of a gay rights parade in Poland on Tuesday sued the mayor of Poznan for banning the event. The group has alleged that the ban violated their right to freedom of assembly...

The US on Tuesday threatened to hold up approval of a two-year UN budget unless reforms agreed to in September were acted on by the end of the year. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the reform proposals...

Mexico's National Commission for Human Rights on Tuesday said that the country's police and prosecutors continue to use torture despite pledges by President Vicente Fox to halt such...

The Uzbekistan Supreme Court Tuesday took the remarkable step of issuing a statement defending its recently-concluded trial of 15 individuals accused of leading a May, 2005 uprising in the town of Andijan which led to the 15...

The Texas Supreme Court Tuesday declared a statewide property tax unconstitutional because it sets a cap limit that most school districts are at or near already. The ruling partly affirmed and partly reversed a prior decision...

The US Education Department on Tuesday planned to send to states initiatives easing some requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) , which educators have...