Veteran civil servant Donald Tsang was declared the new leader of Hong Kong Thursday after his nomination was supported by roughly 85 percent of the election committee, a 796-member group largely loyal to...
A new poll released by the Pew Research Center shows a reduction in favorable views of the the US Supreme Court on both sides of the political spectrum. According to the poll released Wednesday,...
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney Thursday announced his support of a drive to put before state voters a proposed constitutional amendment to ban both same-sex marriage and civil unions. Massachusetts is the only US state where same-sex...
The New York State Court of Appeals upheld on Thursday a lower court ruling that the state's ban on cameras in trial courtrooms is constitutional. The appeals court ruled that the legislature has the final say...
Lodi (CA) father and son indictment for making false statements to the FBI in connection with terrorist matters, US Department of Justice, June 16, 2005 [indicting a father and son for allegedly lying to the FBI about the son attending...
Orbanski v. the Queen, Supreme Court of Canada, June 16, 2005 [ruling that police at roadside DUI checkpoints do not have to inform suspects of their right to legal counsel before asking them whether or not they had been drinking...
Supreme Court's Image Declines as Nomination Battle Looms, Pew Research Center, June 16, 2005 . Excerpt:With an aging Supreme Court possibly facing...
American Interests and UN Reform, US Task Force on the United Nations, June 16, 2005 . Excerpt:Just as the United States...
Burundi on Wednesday approved a United Nations plan to establish a truth and reconciliation commission with a special war crimes chamber to investigate decades of bloody conflict between local Hutus and Tutsis going back to the country's independence in...
A senior Chinese government official said Thursday that China is drafting a new anti-terrorism law . Zhao Yongchen, deputy director of the counterterrorism bureau of the Ministry of Public Security , said the top terrorist...