Politics

Nigerian Woman Continues Appeal of Stoning Sentence

A Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning by an Islamic court for committing adultery appeared in a heavily guarded courthouse in northern Nigeria Wednesday to continue to appeal her conviction.

Rwandans Re-Elect President Kagame in First Post-Genocide Vote

Nine years after mass genocide took the lives of nearly one million Rwandans, citizens in the small Central African nation of eight million re-elected the man credited for his role in ending the country's decades-long war.

Crash Probe Faults Foam, Says Safety Plan a Must

An independent board investigating the breakup of the space shuttle Columbia released its final report Tuesday morning.

Federal Deficit to Hit Record $480 Billion in 2004, CBO Predicts

The federal government is heading toward a record $480 billion deficit in 2004, according to a report released Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office.

DVD Industry Wins in Digital Copying Case

The California Supreme Court on Monday ruled that courts can prohibit the online publication of DVD-copying codes, finding that the protection of corporate trade secrets outranked free speech rights in the case.

Bustamante Pulls Ahead of Schwarzenegger in California Recall

California's Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante has overtaken Republican actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a poll testing voters' opinions about the Oct. 7 recall election that will decide the fate of embattled Gov. Gray Davis.

Power Failure

Upgrading the U.S. electric transmission grid to prevent future blackouts could cost $100 billion, according to an industry report released Monday. Experts discuss these proposed improvements to the grid system and the investigation into the cause of the August 14…

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Nearly 100 Feared Dead in Nigerian Clashes

Nearly a week of ethnic warfare in the southern Nigerian oil city of Warri has left an estimated 100 people dead and more than 1,000 others injured, the Nigerian Red Cross told news agencies Friday.

Oliphant and York

Political analysts Tom Oliphant of The Boston Globe and Byron York of the National Review discuss the week's news, including how the Bush administration is faring on domestic issues in the face of continuing developments in Iraq and the latest…

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New Liberian Transition Leader Chosen

As Liberia's rebels and government chose a new leader to head their transition government, the United Nations envoy to Liberia said he would ask the Security Council to authorize its largest peacekeeping deployment in the world -- 15,000 troops.