Politics Jun 19 High Court Returns Wetlands Cases to Lower Court, Agrees to Hear Abortion Appeal The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly voided a lower court's decision blocking two developments on wetlands in Michigan, and agreed to consider a second appeal to reinstate a federal ban on so-called partial-birth abortions.
Politics Jun 16 Challenges Just Beginning for New Iraqi Unity Government More than three years after American troops toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraq established a permanent government that joins Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish politicians under a federal Constitution.
Politics Jun 16 House Rejects Setting Timeline for Withdrawal in Iraq In a symbolic move, the House passed a resolution that connected the conflict in Iraq with the global war on terrorism and rejected setting a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops.
Politics Jun 16 Nepal Prime Minister, Rebel Leader Hold First Peace Talks The leader of Nepal's communist rebel group held talks with the country's new prime minister Friday paving the way for what many hope will be the end of a 10-year insurgency that has killed 13,000 people.
Politics Jun 15 Britain Agrees to Imprison Taylor if Ex-Liberian Leader Is Convicted Britain agreed to host former Liberian President Charles Taylor in one of its prisons if he is convicted of war crimes, a government official said Thursday, paving the way for the U.N.-backed court in Sierra Leone to transfer Taylor to…
Politics Jun 15 Renewed Violence in Sri Lanka Raises Fears of Return to Full-scale War Landmines in northern Sri Lanka ripped through a crowded bus Thursday morning, killing 64 people, including 15 school children, and wounding 78.
Nation Jun 14 Somali Islamist Militants Seize Town from Warlords Somali Islamist militias that took over the capital Mogadishu last week ousted warlords from the strategic town of Jowhar on Wednesday.
Nation Jun 13 President Bush Visits Iraq to Discuss Security, Other Matters President Bush made a surprise trip to Baghdad Tuesday to meet with Iraqi leaders about ways to secure the country, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's reported plan to deploy 75,000 Iraqi and multinational forces to the capital.
Arts Jun 12 William Inge Theater Festival Honors Playwrights The William Inge Theater Festival started on Monday in the small town of Independence, Kansas. The festival has honored America's great playwrights for the past twenty-five years.
Politics Jun 12 High Court Allows Lethal Injection, DNA Evidence Challenges The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that death row inmates may file last-resort challenges to lethal injections, citing them as cruel and unusual punishment.