Politics May 03 Sharon Survives No-Confidence Vote After Gaza Plan Defeat Prime Minister Ariel Sharon easily survived a no-confidence vote in Israel's parliament Monday, one day after his right-wing Likud party soundly rejected his Gaza pullout plan.
Nation Apr 30 Sinclair Stations Pull Nightline Iraq Casualties Report In response to ABC News' decision to read the names of the more than 700 servicemen and women killed in Iraq during the April 30 edition of Nightline, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that it will not carry the special broadcast.
Politics Apr 28 High Court Considers Enemy Combatant Detentions The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two precedent-setting cases that ask whether in the war on terrorism President Bush can order American citizens held indefinitely in a military jail without charges, a hearing or access to a lawyer.
Politics Apr 26 High Court to Hear Cheney Energy Task Force Case The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on whether Vice President Dick Cheney should be able to keep his energy task force papers secret, another key case in the high court's current term that will test the limits of executive…
Politics Apr 20 High Court Hears Appeal from Guantanamo Detainees The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether courts have the jurisdiction to hear appeals from terror suspects held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in one of the first major constitutionality tests of the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies.
World Apr 15 Purported Bin Laden Tape Offers Truce to Europeans The CIA said it believes a tape released Wednesday is likely the voice of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Politics Apr 13 Justice Scalia Apologizes to Reporters, Revises Print Media Policy Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia apologized for the confiscation of two reporters' audiotapes by a deputy U.S. marshal during a public speech in Mississippi, and promised to allow print journalists to record his public speeches in the future.
Politics Apr 04 Afghan Warlord Demands Changes in Karzai Government The leader of Afghanistan's minority Uzbek community, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, renewed his calls for changes in the Karzai government Friday and refused to remove his forces that overran the northern province of Faryab.
Politics Mar 24 High Court Weighs Pledge of Allegiance Dispute The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case involving a dispute over the words "under God" in the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.
Politics Mar 18 Scalia Rejects Recusal Request in Cheney Case A defiant Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia refused a request Thursday to remove himself from a case involving his friend, Vice President Dick Cheney, dismissing suggestions of a conflict of interest.