A federal judge in Oregon has allowed a lawsuit by the US branch of the Saudi Arabia-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation to proceed against the US government over the warrantless wiretapping of communications between the...
Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon , who was certified as the winner of Mexico's disputed presidential election earlier this week, said Thursday that he will advocate for US immigration reform ...
A federal judge issued a preliminary ruling and injunction on Thursday to prevent the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from selling oil and gas leases to land near Teshekpuk Lake in Alaska to...
President Bush's recent acknowledgement of secret CIA prisons for important terror detainees was motivated by the personal urgings of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to release all British prisoners, and from pleas to close the sites from...
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage personally admitted to leaking the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson during a phone interview on Thursday. Armitage apologized for the leak, which he maintains was unintentional. Armitage said...
Iraq's parliament adjourned abruptly Thursday following a heated debate about a draft law that would divide the country into autonomous regions. Sunnis oppose the plan because it would leave them without access to Iraq's oil as most...
Four human rights experts appointed by the United Nations are heading to the Middle East to investigate possible abuses during the recent Mideast conflict between Israel and Lebanon. Secretary-General Kofi Annans Representative on the...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Thursday urged members of the Canadian Senate's Special Committee on Senate Reform to support legislation that would limit terms in the country's unelected Senate to...
A bill designed to put the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program on a sound legal footing failed to make it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. Sponsored by...
A Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote on whether to confirm the nomination of John Bolton as permanent US ambassador to the United Nations was postponed Thursday after Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) ...