US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday that the US Department of Homeland Security is preparing to increase its efforts to deal with the problem of illegal immigration. Last week, Arizona declared a state...
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Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel Tuesday called a televised statement by Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez "criminal" and said that Robertson's comments were "terrorist statements."...
Glenn Allen Powell, a former employee of Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) , has pleaded guilty to charges that he accepted bribes and defrauded the US government when awarding a contract...
AP is reporting that the speaker of Iraq's National Assembly has said that the draft constitution has been submitted ahead of the midnight deadline, but that there remain "pending points" that parties will try to resolve...
AP is reporting that a Shiite member of the committee writing the Iraqi constitution has said that a draft has been completed and will be submitted to the National Assembly shortly, despite ongoing Sunni reservations about...
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced Monday that the state has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) . The complaint alleges...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Monday rejected a request by prosecutors to speed up the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic . Milosevic's trial on charges of genocide,...
AP is reporting that a Sunni member of Iraq's constitutional committee has said that he doubts that a deal can be reached on an Iraqi constitution "in the next few hours." As previously reported...
US officials have dropped their objections to Islam playing a role in Iraq's legal system, according to members of Iraq's constitutional committee . Shiite and Kurdish negotiators have said that US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad has proposed...
AP is reporting that Ohio Governor Bob Taft will plead no contest to charges that he improperly failed to report golf outings and other gifts.1:22 PM ET - Taft was fined $4,000 but will not...
