Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack announced Friday that he will sign an order on July 4 to restore voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences. The decision will end a system that had disqualified one out...
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Iowa to restore voting rights to ex-felons
Palestinian passage of new election law reopens door to vote
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CardSystems says FBI said not to go public on credit card security breach
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US military policeman sues Pentagon for beating by comrades during Gitmo training
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Catholic bishops extend ban on abusive priests
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Annan criticizes any US withdrawal of funds under UN Reform Act
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MasterCard says 40 million cards potentially exposed to fraud
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States brief ~ Iowa Supreme Court refuses to address ruling that dissolved civil union
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Texas Governor signs life without parole bill into law
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The Palestinian parliament voted Saturday to pass a new law creating an electoral system which will allow districts to choose 50% of the lawmakers with the other 50% coming from a list of national party candidates. The new law...
CardSystems Solutions, Inc. said Friday that the FBI told them to refrain from releasing any informing regarding a security breach which potentially exposed over 40 million cardholders to fraud. CardSystems said they first discovered the...
Spc. Sean Baker, an ex-US military policeman, has sued the Pentagon alleging that his constitutional rights were violated during an assault by fellow soldiers in a January 2003 training session that went awry in Guantanamo Bay. Baker...
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops Friday voted to extend a policy to ban abusive priests from working in the church by a margin of 228-4. The Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People ,...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has spoken out against the United Nations Reform Act of 2005 , passed by the US House of Representatives on Friday, which will cut 50% of US dues to the...
UN Reform Act, passed by US House of Representatives on June 17, 2005 . Read...
MasterCard announced late Friday that a security lapse at CardSystems Solutions , a third-party processing company in Tuscon, Arizona, has potentially exposed more than 40 million cards to fraud, and that it has notified banks of...
Leading Friday's states brief, the Iowa Supreme Court today refused to address the ruling of a lower court that dissolved a Vermont civil union . The Supreme Court did not judge the merits of the legal claim...
Texas Governor Rick Perry Friday signed into law legislation which creates a new life-without-parole sentencing option in state capital murder cases. Previously, Texas juries have only had the option of sentencing offenders to death...
