AP is reporting that TIME magazine reporter Matthew Cooper has agreed to comply with government demands to testify before a grand jury investigating the identity leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame . TIME previously turned over Cooper's notes . Cooper told the judge presiding in his case Wednesday that he had received a direct communication [...]
A Spanish court Wednesday blocked the marriage of a Spanish man to his Indian partner because India bans same-sex unions. The ruling by a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of Catalonia is the first snag on Spain's recently passed same-sex marriage law , only the third of its kind worldwide (Belgium and the [...]
President Bush Wednesday named former Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) as an "informal adviser" to help guide his future Supreme Court nomination through the Senate. Thompson, perhaps better known for his acting career , was elected to serve the remainder of Al Gore's term in 1994 and easily re-elected in 1996. He served on the Senate [...]
L. Patrick Gray , a Nixon loyalist and acting FBI director during the Watergate investigation who ended up resigning after he admitted destroying relevant documents, died Wednesday in Atlantic Beach, Florida, at 88. Gray said in a June television interview that he felt betrayed when former FBI deputy director W. Mark Felt was confirmed as [...]
Sudan's National Assembly on Wednesday unanimously approved a new constitution that moves the country away from pure Islamic rule. It provides that Islamic law will not be applied in largely Christian areas, generally in the south of the country, and removes a requirement that president be a Muslim. The constitution comes as a result of [...]
A federal court in Boston will hear arguments Friday in the case of twelve members of the armed forces who are challenging the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy that requires them to keep their sexual orientation a secret or face discharge. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network plans to argue that the policy enacted in [...]
Jordanian lawyer Ziad Khasawneh , the head of the Committee for Defending Saddam Hussein, announced Wednesday that he is quitting the group, turning full control of the former Iraqi president's defense over to a team led by maverick former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark , who served in the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. Clark [...]
The trial of 24 people accused by Spanish authorities of aiding the 9/11 attack on the United States concluded Tuesday after 10 weeks of testimony and evidence. The defendants include Immad Yarkas , the alleged head of an al-Qaeda cell in Spain. Prosecutors are seeking over 74,000 years in prison for the top defendants. Yarkas [...]
The UN Security Council agreed Tuesday to turn over more documents to the Independent Inquiry Committee investigating the oil-for-food scandal . The Council will turn over notes from a meeting about the program taken by a junior UN staffer . Secretary-General Kofi Annan originally announced the release last week, but Council members wanted approval from [...]
Eleven militants in Indonesian custody have been declared terror suspects and police believe two of them may be involved in the September 2004 bombing of Australia's embassy in Jakarta which killed 11 people. The remaining nine will be tried for violations of Law No. 15 of 2003 , a new anti-terrorism statute enacted after the [...]