Protesters pushing for a government-run health system have been thrown out of a Senate hearing room after disrupting the meeting.
Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has said that a so-called single-payer system one that’s run by the government is not on the table. Many liberals favor that approach but Baucus and others say it’s not [...]
Germany’s highest court ruled Tuesday that a married couple Ms. Thalheim and Mr. Kunz-Hallstein cannot become Mr. & Mrs. Thalheim-Kunz-Hallstein, upholding a 1993 law that draws the line at a maximum of two last names.
They said the law violated their right to free choice and could be damaging their careers.
The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to endorse an EU ban on products derived from seals in protest at hunting methods despite threats from Canada to complain to the World Trade Organisation.
The decision to ban products derived from seal hunting, especially pelts, comes on the eve of a visit to Prague by Canadian Prime Minister [...]
Florida’s former Republican House Speaker Marco Rubio will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez.
Republican Mel Martinez said in December he would not seek a second Senate term in 2010.
Rubio announced his plans in a video obtained by The Associated Press. The video will be released on his campaign’s web site [...]
The US Supreme Court has ruled that a law often used by prosecutors to penalize illegal immigrants who use false identification documents to gain employment overstepped its mark.
This act of identity theft, which carries a minimum two-year prison sentence, is a favorite for prosecutors targeting illegal workers in a country where there are 12 million [...]
Britain for the first time has published a list of people barred from entering the country for what the government says is fostering extremism or hatred.
The list Tuesday also includes Americans Stephen Donald Black, a white supremacist, and anti- preacher Fred Phelps.
The list includes popular American talk-radio host Michael Savage, who has called the Muslim [...]
The U.N. refugee agency says it has changed its guidelines on how countries should treat asylum seekers from southern Iraq because of the improved security situation.
Spokesman Ron Redmond told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday that people from high-risk groups including religious and ethnic minorities should receive “favorable consideration.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he hopes President Barack Obama will make an unconventional choice for a Supreme Court justice to succeed Justice David Souter.
He said he hopes Obama goes outside the existing legal system and finds a former governor or senator, or someone who has “real life experiences.
Taliban militants patrolled the streets of a northwestern town Tuesday and residents were urged to flee as a peace deal widely criticized as a surrender to the extremists appeared on the verge of collapse, witnesses and officials said.
U.S. officials said Obama would seek assurances from President Asif Ali Zardari that his country’s nuclear arsenal was [...]
A dozen Afghan lawmakers have arrived in Dublin to explore the lessons of Northern Ireland peacemaking.
Later this week they travel to Belfast, capital of the British territory of Northern Ireland, to meet with the rival leaders of the Catholic-Protestant government there. Power-sharing was the central goal of Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace accord and took nearly [...]
