Religion News in Brief An Oregon legislative leader plans to introduce a bill to repeal a 1923 state law that bans teachers from ...
Honolulu police hope to deter drunken driving by posting mug shots of suspects on the Web Mug shots of drunken driving suspects are ...
A US federal court on Tuesday granted the US administration's request to reconsider a case that claimed a Boeing unit had participated in delivering terror suspects to secret CIA prisons. The move amounted to a major test of the government's national security ...
Human rights groups turn down US offer to visit Guantanamo without access to prisoners Three human rights groups said Friday they will spurn an invitation to tour the Guantanamo Bay prison next month because it doesn't include an opportunity to speak with ...
Judge keeps secret portions of detainee interrogation documents that may describe abuse A federal judge ruled Friday in a case on detainees at Guantanamo Bay that the government can maintain the secrecy of portions of some records that allegedly describe torture and ...
News group asks federal court to stop enforcement of new exit-poll buffer zone in New Jersey Six major media outlets who use Election Day polling to gauge the mood and attitudes of the nation asked a federal judge on Friday to stop ...
A federal court upheld Friday the US government's decision to censor statements made by Guantanamo Bay detainees about their treatment at Central Intelligence Agency-run prisons. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a human rights group, had argued that the government should declassify ...
Lesbian student in Mississippi fights to get photo of her in tuxedo in high school yearbook Everyone at Wesson Attendance Center knows 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is gay because she's never tried to hide it. But when Sturgis — an honor student, trumpet ...
Congress could thwart effort to make public new detainee abuse photos Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a move intended to end a legal fight over ...
AP Enterprise: Police across the US stop and question more than 1 million people each year A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to ...
A white cross erected in the California desert to honor soldiers killed in World War I plunged the US Supreme Court Wednesday into a complex debate on the separation of church and state. Critics charge that the cross, erected 75 years ago, ...
US Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged Tuesday it will be "difficult" to close Guantanamo Bay before President Barack Obama's January 2010 deadline, amid a litany of legal and political challenges. "It's going to be difficult for us to make the January 22 ...
