Ayres' outrage helped lead to restrictions last year on the display of autopsy photos in Michigan — one of at least 10 states to enact laws in recent years to prohibit coroners from releasing pictures or other death records to the public.
Chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis accused Damascus of using a Syrian witness in the inquiry into the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister as a Communist-like propaganda tool.
France's parliament voted to uphold a law that puts an upbeat spin on the country's painful colonial past, ignoring complaints from historians and the former French territory of Algeria, requires school textbooks to address France's
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U.S. Supreme Court grappled with its first abortion case in five years on Wednesday, considering whether a parental notification law must provide an exception when the health of an abortion-seeking minor is at risk.
The school leavers of today could have to work until they are 69 before they collect their state pension if proposals put forward by the Pensions Commission are implemented.
A Washington, D.C., cab driver, a Florida doctor and a Bronx jazz musician have pleaded not guilty to charges they conspired to help terrorist organizations.
Trying to preserve their electronic pulpits, the nation's religious broadcasters find themselves in the unusual position of fighting an effort by anti-indecency groups to thwart channels offering racy programming.
Firefox released the latest version of its browser Tuesday with improved security and better pop-up blocking, among other features. Called Firefox 1.5, the upgrade was made available for download Tuesday afternoon.
To help boost its stalled economy, hurricane-ravaged New Orleans is offering the nation's first free wireless Internet network owned and run by a major city.
CIA Director Porter Goss, saying his agency struggles to penetrate terrorist sanctuaries overseas, insists that "we know more than we're able to say publicly" about
Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
"I think that you can have a legitimate insurgency in a country that has popular support and has a cohesiveness and has a legitimate gripe," Rumsfeld said. "These people don't have a legitimate gripe."
"The Democratic Party seems to be taken over by the Michael Moore contingent in their attitude toward Vietnam, and they continually call for a withdrawal of troops at a time when we haven't finished the job," Sen. Hatch said
U.S. officials held talks with the Dutch government to try to persuade the Netherlands to send more troops to
Afghanistan as part of a
NATO plan to expand peacekeeping despite increasing violence.
A new plan by the Transportation Security Administration would allow airline passengers to bring scissors and other sharp objects in their carry-on bags because the items no longer pose the greatest threat to airline security.
"America will not run in the face of car bombers and assassins so long as I am your commander in chief," Bush said, warning there would be violence there "for many years to come." A timetable for withdrawing troops won't occur
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FAA has imposed flight restrictions over
Dick Cheney's new Maryland home, angering private pilots who say they can't fly overhead even when the vice president isn't around.
Britain wants new laws on telecoms records, biometric data for identity papers and visa information. Businesses must keep details about callers, who they spoke to, where and when, and would apply to land telephone lines and mobile phones, text messa
Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton defended her vote to authorize war in
Iraq amid growing unease among liberal Democrats who could determine the potential 2008 presidential candidate's future.
American forces in Iraq, he writes below, are now "the Praetorian Guard" for a radical right-wing Iraqi theocratic government in Baghdad, one deeply indebted to that full member of the "axis of evil," Iran.
"It's becoming one of the public issues Sec. Rice is going to have to address on her next trip," said a European official. "The mood in Europe is one of increasing concern over what people call the American 'gulag' and the
"The DOJ is committed to protecting civil liberties and to using all investigative tools judiciously and within the bounds of the law. We urge the Congress not to let a distorted and misleading portrayal of the FBI's use of this vital invest
As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
The PHaSR is about the same size and weight of a fully loaded M60 machine gun but shoots a low-power beam of laser light capable of temporarily impairing an individual's vision, much like the disorienting glare one sees when looking into the sun,
Two men appeared in a British court accused of leaking a secret document which a newspaper said showed that
President Bush wanted to bomb Arabic television station Al Jazeera.
The Justice Department issued a broad defense Tuesday of an investigative tool used by the FBI to compel businesses to turn over customer information without a court order or grand jury subpoena.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects as part of an unprecedented war to prevent massive attacks on civilians.
"The idea of a congressman taking money is outrageous," said President Bush as he prepared to fly to Arizona's for its largest fund raising event ever, to help US Sen. Kyl (R-AZ).
RALEIGH, N.C. - One of the nation's leading suppliers of electronic voting machines may decide against selling new equipment in North Carolina after a judge declined Monday to protect it from criminal prosecution should it fail to disclose softwa