MEMBER INFORMATION: Suriname and the WTO - This page gathers key information on Suriname's participation in the WTO. Suriname has been a WTO member since 1 ...
A 1977 Florida state law that bans gay individuals from adopting has received its biggest challenge thus far: Foster father Frank Martin Gill won his suit to adopt two brothers he has been fostering s...
Pennsylvania will pay $12.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the father of a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by troopers after he hopped out of a stolen vehicle.
U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D- Pa., left, addresses supporters with Senator Bob Casey, D-Pa., right, during a campaign rally outside a steel workers union hall in Latrobe, Pa. Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. (AP P...
AP - A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck remote northwestern China on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Noe Ramirez Mandujano, a prosecutor who resigned as head of the SIEDO organized crime unit in July, is arrested on suspicion of passing intelligence to Sinaloa drug gangsters.
In a spiraling probe of corruption at the top levels of Mexican law enforcement, authorities said Friday that the nation's former anti-drug chief had accepted $450,000 to tip off traffickers.
(AP Photo/Los Angeles Daily News, POOL)A Metro Bus carries residents of the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar, Calif. to see the destruction from the wildfire on Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Once consider...
(AP Photo/Blackledge Family Photo)In this photograph provided by Maj. Gen. David Blackledge, Blackledge, right, stands in front of a helicopter in Iraq in this undated photograph. Blackledge got psych...
The North Carolina NAACP wants North Carolina State University to expel four students accused of painting racist messages about President-elect Obama on campus.
New York - US President George W Bush will join other heads of state at the United Nations next week for discussion on religion and cooperation for peace, the UN said Wednesday. The Kings of Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and presidents of the Philippines,...
Reuters - Producer prices fell a record 2.8 percent in October as energy prices slid, government data on Tuesday showed, but a measure of core inflation at the farm and factory gate rose more than forecast.
Eager for a quick start, Democratic congressional leaders intend to begin work in early January on priority legislation so it can be ready for President-elect Barack Obama's signature shortly after he takes office, according to officials familiar with the plans.
AP - A sex offender whose lenient sentence for molesting a child led to a crackdown on punishment for sexual predators in Vermont will likely be released from prison next month, state corrections officials say.
The U.S. government has gone to an appeals court to fight an order that it give the American Civil Liberties Union pictures of abusive treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The rumor shot like electricity through the Haitian capital: Another school was falling. Desperate parents and would-be rescuers ran through alleys, leaped over walls and wrestled with police to reach the scene.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama will have a chance to appoint dozens of sympathetic judges to U.S. federal courts over the next four years, reversing the judiciary's shift to the r...
Washington - The United States will provide 10 million dollars in aid to help Haiti recover from the devastation of four tropical storms and hurricanes this season, the White House said Wednesday. Spokeswoman Dana Perino said the US would deliver sup...
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