House Democrats voted on Friday to approve a farm bill that would continue generous farmers’ subsidies at a time of record crop prices, ignoring a veto threat and yowls of protest by Republicans over a tax provision that they said spoiled bipartisan support for the bill.
Speaking at the annual judges´ dinner, the new Justice Secretary said ministers should not criticise individual judgments.
Government ministers were castigated today over their “bungled” creation of the Ministry of Justice and “insensitive” treatment of judges in two separate Parliamentary reports.
An acute shortage of judges is causing long delays in bringing criminal trials to court, putting more pressure on overcrowded prisons and delaying justice for victims of crime.
An oral surgeon who temporarily implanted fake boar tusks in his assistant´s mouth as a practical joke and got sued for it has gotten the state´s high court to back up his gag.
President Bush on Saturday pushed Congress to modernize a law that governs how the U.S. intelligence community monitors the communications of suspected terrorists.
President Bush, starting a new relationship late in his presidency, welcomed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday with casual diplomacy.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Sunday acknowledged high trade tensions with China and said he would start a four-day visit by focusing on an issue with more common ground: the environment.
Rupert Murdoch´s News Corp. appeared close to gaining sufficient approval for its $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co from the Bancroft family, The Wall Street Journal said, ahead of a Monday deadline for responding to the offer.
A man accused of drugging and raping a woman, and getting her pregnant with twins, is fighting for access to the children.
A child at the centre of a surrogacy battle is to be taken from the mother who has brought him up for 17 months and given to the couple with whom she made the agreement.
A federal court Thursday struck down ordinances passed by Hazleton, Pennsylvania, that were intended to limit where illegal immigrants could live and work.
A federal judge Thursday ordered the government to pay more than $101 million in the case of four men who spent decades in prison for a 1965 murder they didn´t commit after the FBI withheld evidence of their innocence.
The European Union´s top antitrust regulator has charged that Intel (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) tried to use its huge market share to push smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) out of the central processing unit business.
Global financial markets stabilized on Friday after robust corporate results soothed credit fears which have triggered a broad and volatile sell-off in stocks and other risky assets.
A civil case has been filed against the New York Police Department by a Brooklyn woman whose fiance was shot more than 50 times by police officers on the day they were to be married.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday replaced the country’s defense minister, whose duties include oversight of civil aviation. The move came eight days after the deadliest air disaster in Brazilian history.
Ford Motor Co. on Thursday swung to a surprise second-quarter profit after seven quarters of losses on cost-cutting and a turnaround in its core automotive operations, pushing its shares higher.
The yen rose on Thursday, climbing to 2-1/2-month highs against the dollar, as investors spooked by growing credit markets problems fled risky assets.
New Haven, Connecticut, on Tuesday became the first U.S. city to issue identification cards to illegal immigrants, as opponents of the controversial cards booed the mayor and its backers cheered.
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