The sponsors of a proposed amendment to the California constitution that would ban gay marriage sued California Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Tuesday, alleging that his summary of the measure prepared by the...

A military group in Mauritania overthrew the president on Wednesday, with a junta taking temporary control of the West African nation. Mauritanian President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Taya , who has allied with the US in the...

Benyam Mohammed , a 27-year-old Ethiopian man held at Guantanamo, claims he was tortured in Pakistan, Morocco, and Afghanistan before arriving in Cuba. While there is no independent verification for Mohammed's claims, it is not the...

Government officials from Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province defended their controversial morals law before the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday. Earlier this week, the government argued that the law was unconsitutionally vague and...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco has overturned a lower court ruling and struck down a Hawaiian school's policy of only admitting native Hawaiians as students, even...

A New York City councilman and state assemblyman have announced support for racial profiling in terrorism searches to protect the New York transit system from attacks like the recent London bombings. Assemblyman Dov Hikind , a Democrat from...

The US has strongly criticized a new UN draft of proposed UN reforms, complaining that the document is too long, poorly put together, and not responsive to American concerns. While the draft is far from being voted on, the...

Zambian authorities said on Wednesday that a suspect in the July 7 London bombings will be deported to Britain. Haroon Rashid Aswat , a British man being held by Zambian police , is under investigation for 20...

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...