In the wake of a June 6 state court ruling that upheld the November 2004 election of Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire , the Washington State Republican Party Friday paid the state Democrats $15,000 to...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi took the remarkable step Friday of demanding in an official statement delivered to summoned US ambassador Mel Sembler that the US government exhibit "full respect" for Italian sovereignty in the...

Software giant Microsoft has agreed to pay IBM $775 million to resolve claims stemming from the antitrust lawsuit brought by the US government in the late 1990s. As part of the agreement...

AP is reporting tha President Bush will not pick a US Supreme Court nominee to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O'Connor before he returns from the G8 summit in Europe July 8, according to the White House....

The UN is planning to send an investigator to Japan next week to look into charges of racism and discrimination against ethnic minority groups in the country, including ethnic Koreans and Chinese, according to a statement by the Office...

Retirement letter of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor addressed to President George W. Bush, July 1, 2005 . Read a copy of...

More than 100 congressmen on Thursday backed a proposal for a constitutional amendment that would protect more religious expression on public property. The steps are being taken to reverse the holding in McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky [opinion;...

Carrying out his May threat to take over the California prison health care system , US District Judge Thelton Henderson said Thursday he will appoint an independent overseer for the medical facilities. The appointment is expected to take...

US District Judge Karen Schreier Thursday granted a preliminary injunction blocking a controversial South Dakota law passed in March requiring abortion doctors to tell women that abortion ends the lives of "human beings", or face 30...

AP is reporting that Sandra Day O'Connor , first woman justice on the US Supreme Court, has announced her plans to retire . Read the text of Justice O'Connor's letter of resignation addressed to President...